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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
Acted
Sang
Played
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.
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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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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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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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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 do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.
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