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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. "
Theodore Bikel
Right
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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 always sang, I always acted, I always played. "
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" I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go. "
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" I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all. "
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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 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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" 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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" 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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" As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government. "
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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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Me
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" 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. "
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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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My Life
" It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.' "
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Thing
Surviving
" Every actor wants to direct. "
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Wants
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" Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good. "
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Accents
Exceedingly
" Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general. "
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Work
Theatre
" 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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Arts
Cannot
" 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'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone. "
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" I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. "
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Within
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" Audiences are audiences. "
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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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Good
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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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People
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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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" 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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Said
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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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I Can
Better
I Am
" You learn more from the flops than from the hits. "
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Than
Flops
" 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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" 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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" 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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You
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