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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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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 created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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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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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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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 am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
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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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'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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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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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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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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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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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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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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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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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