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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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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 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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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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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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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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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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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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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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 do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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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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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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You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.
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While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.
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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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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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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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