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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?
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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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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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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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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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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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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 do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.
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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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Audiences are audiences.
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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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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
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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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