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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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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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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'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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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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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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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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An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.'
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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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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 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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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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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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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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 always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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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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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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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