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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
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Vienna
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Theodore Meir Bikel
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Audiences are audiences.
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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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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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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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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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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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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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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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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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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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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.'
Theodore Bikel
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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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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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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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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Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.
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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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'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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