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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.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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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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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.'
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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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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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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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