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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
Businessperson
Film Actor
Musician
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Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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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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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 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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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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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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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Audiences are audiences.
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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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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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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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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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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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'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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