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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.
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
Politician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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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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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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If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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