Theodore Bikel Quotes
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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.
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I don't speak out because I am an actor nor will I keep silent because I am an actor. I respect my profession, but it endows me with no special privileges; but it also does not limit me or muzzle me. I am a person and a citizen with the attendant responsibilities of voice and vote.
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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.
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No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.
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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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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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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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 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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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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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.
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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 am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts.
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I refuse to do shows that are narrowly constructed, that appeal to only one sentiment. I do a lot of Jewish material in front of non-Jews and a lot of non-Jewish material in front of Jews on the simple theory that the non-Jews are entitled to a glimpse of a Jewish world and the Jews are entitled to a glimpse of the world.
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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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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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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.
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I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.
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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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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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You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.
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