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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.

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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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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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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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You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.
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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 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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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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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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 am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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