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Theodore Bikel Biography

Theodore Meir Bikel (/bɪˈkɛl/ bih-KEL; May 2, 1924 – July 21, 2015) was an Austrian-American Jewish actor, folk singer, musician, composer, unionist and political activist. He appeared in films including The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Enemy Below (1957), I Want to Live! (1958), My Fair Lady (1964) and The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966). For his portrayal of Sheriff Max Muller in The Defiant Ones (1958), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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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.

Entire, New York, Travel, World, York

Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.

Believe, Retirement, Retiring, Tired, Word

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

Air, Fault, Faults, Play, Said, Words

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

Choose, Let, Letting Go, Prefer, Tradition, Traditions

You learn more from the flops than from the hits.

Flops, Hits, Learn

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.

Ends, Funny, Live, Middle, Stage

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.

Advent, Given, Mass, Sermons, Word

'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?

Green, Play, Wonderful, Work

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. '

Actor, Fashion, Theatre, Thinking, Type

I am first, and foremost, an actor. That's what I am. To me, a song is a mini-drama. My musical ability informs the actor as well because it gives me a sense of timing that non-musicians don't have. So, one hand washes the other.

Actor, Drama, Hands, Sense, Song

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

Order, Needs, Mixtures, Totally, Tradition

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.

Degree, Degrees, Exercise, Glory, Integrity

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

According, Believe, Firmly, Jewish Life, Life, Principles

In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.

Cities, City, Israel, Mind, Serious, Side

I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts.

Art, Arts, Practitioner, Specialist, Specialists, World

I always sang, I always acted, I always played.

Acted, Played, Sang

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.

Person, Responsibility, Speaks Out, Special, Voice, Vote

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

Gives, Giving, Hate, Striven, Voice

I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.

Convinced, I Can, Jew, Remain, Universalist

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

Accompanies, Humility, Justice, Moral, Strong

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