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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 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 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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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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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'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 always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
Theodore Bikel
I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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