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Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
Businessperson
Film Actor
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Politician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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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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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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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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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Audiences are audiences.
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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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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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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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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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'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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