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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.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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Vienna
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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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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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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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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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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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