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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.

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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
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Sang
Played
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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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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 remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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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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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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'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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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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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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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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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 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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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 learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.
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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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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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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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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 am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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