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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
Businessperson
Film Actor
Musician
Politician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
Audiences
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You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.
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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.
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I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.
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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
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'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?
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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
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We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.
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I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.
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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.
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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
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If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.
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I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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