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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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You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.
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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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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.'
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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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Audiences are audiences.
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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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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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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. 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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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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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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 created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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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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