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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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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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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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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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 am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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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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 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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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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