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Theodore Bikel Quotes

Theodore Bikel quotes

Austrian Actor May 2, 1924

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Theodore Bikel quote: "Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of..."
Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples. Theodore Bikel
Theodore Bikel quote: "For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal..."
For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles. Theodore Bikel
Theodore Bikel quote: "I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of..."
I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. Theodore Bikel
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. Theodore Bikel
Theodore Bikel quote: "On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a..."
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. Theodore Bikel
Theodore Bikel quote: "You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see..."
You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them. Theodore Bikel
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. Theodore Bikel
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. Theodore Bikel
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. Theodore Bikel
Theodore Bikel quote: "I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world..."
I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation. Theodore Bikel
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. Theodore Bikel
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. Theodore Bikel
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. Theodore Bikel
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. Theodore Bikel
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? Theodore Bikel

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