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Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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Vienna
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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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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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Audiences are audiences.
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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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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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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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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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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 created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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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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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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.
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