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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.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
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Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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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 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 always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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 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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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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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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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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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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'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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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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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.
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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 created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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Audiences are audiences.
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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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