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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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Audiences are audiences.
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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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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
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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 remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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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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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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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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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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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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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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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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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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