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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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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
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Vienna
Austria
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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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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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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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You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.
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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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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 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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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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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 have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
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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 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 do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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