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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.

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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
Theodore Meir Bikel
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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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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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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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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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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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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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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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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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 always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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