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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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Vienna
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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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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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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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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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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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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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 do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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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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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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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