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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
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Vienna
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Theodore Meir Bikel
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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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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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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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 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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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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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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 created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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Audiences are audiences.
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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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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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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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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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