"It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'"

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Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Theodore Bikel Reminisces on The African Queen" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 23, 2010.

Theodore Bikel

#Queens Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Members Quotes

“Only by chancing the ridiculous, can I hope for the sublime.”

Source : Jane Green, Leah Levy, Jay DeFeo (2003). “Jay DeFeo and The Rose”, p.42, Univ of California Press
“Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.”
“We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here when the hand of your clock is here, and so on. We say we measure time with clocks, but we see only the hands of the clocks, not time itself. And the hands of a clock are a physical variable like any other. So in a sense we cheat because what we really observe are physical variables as a function of other physical variables, but we represent that as if everything is evolving in time.”
“Pro-Tip: Ask for one clear action per panel. Don't ask your artist to do two, three, or more things in a shot. You want those? Add more panels.”
“What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this question...What Makes a Terrorist lacks a question mark. That's because Krueger, marshaling persuasive statistics and analysis, comes down firmly on the side of politics, noting most terrorists are middle-class and well-educated.”
“Every actor pretends that they hate sex scenes, and the truth is that they all love them, and they're lying.”
“In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a courtyard with a small garden of plants that stay green all year. The winter is bleak. This place is primarily for the installation of art, necessarily for whatever architecture of my own that can be included in an existing situation, for work, and altogether for my idea of living.”

Source : Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”
“He did not need a long life for us to measure. It was, rather, we who needed his life to be longer.”

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