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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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Audiences are audiences.
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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 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 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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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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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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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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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 a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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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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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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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