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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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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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 prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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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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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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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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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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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I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.
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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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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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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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