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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.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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Theodore Meir Bikel
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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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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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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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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 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 do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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'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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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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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 prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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 am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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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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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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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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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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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 remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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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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