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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.

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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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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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'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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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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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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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 do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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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 am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
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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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Audiences are audiences.
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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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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 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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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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 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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