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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
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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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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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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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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 do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.
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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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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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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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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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 am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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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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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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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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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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 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 universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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