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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.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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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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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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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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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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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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Audiences are audiences.
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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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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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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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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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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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