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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.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
Businessperson
Film Actor
Musician
Politician
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Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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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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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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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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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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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Audiences are audiences.
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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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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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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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'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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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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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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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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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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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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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