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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
Actor
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Vienna
Austria
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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 remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.
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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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In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
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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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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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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 universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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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 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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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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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 am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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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You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.
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