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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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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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Audiences are audiences.
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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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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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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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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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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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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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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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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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