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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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Theodore Meir Bikel
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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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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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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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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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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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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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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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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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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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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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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While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.
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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 filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
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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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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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