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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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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
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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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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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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
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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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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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 am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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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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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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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 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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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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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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