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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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Audiences are audiences.
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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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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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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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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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'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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