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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
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Film Actor
Musician
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Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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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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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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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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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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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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'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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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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 am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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 remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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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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Audiences are audiences.
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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
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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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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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