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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
Theodore Meir Bikel
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Ends
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Right
Beginning
Something
Stage
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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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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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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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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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 learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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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Audiences are audiences.
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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 do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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