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In my world, history comes down to language and art.

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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
Businessperson
Film Actor
Musician
Politician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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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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Audiences are audiences.
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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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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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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 determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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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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.'
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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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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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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 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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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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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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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