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Theodore Bikel

"Every actor wants to direct."

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"Every actor wants to direct."

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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."
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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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"I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family."
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