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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
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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.'
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You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.
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I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.
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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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'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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On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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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 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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Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.
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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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What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.
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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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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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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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