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You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.
— Theodore Bikel
As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
— Theodore Bikel
But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
— Theodore Bikel
I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
— Theodore Bikel
Every actor wants to direct.
— Theodore Bikel
Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good.
— Theodore Bikel
'Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
— Theodore Bikel
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
No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.
— Theodore Bikel
I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
— Theodore Bikel
I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
— Theodore Bikel
No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.
— Theodore Bikel
I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
— Theodore Bikel
I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.
— Theodore Bikel
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
In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.
— Theodore Bikel
You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.
— Theodore Bikel
For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
— Theodore Bikel
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.
— Theodore Bikel
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.
— Theodore Bikel
When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.
— Theodore Bikel
We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.
— Theodore Bikel
I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor.
— Theodore Bikel
There is no role I cannot play except a midget.
— Theodore Bikel
It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
— Theodore Bikel
You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.
— Theodore Bikel
I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
— Theodore Bikel
Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.
— Theodore Bikel
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
— Theodore Bikel
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
Audiences are audiences.
— Theodore Bikel
I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.
— 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
I am not, and have never been, in favor of boycotting Israel.
— Theodore Bikel
We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.
— Theodore Bikel
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.
— Theodore Bikel
You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
— Theodore Bikel
I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
— Theodore Bikel
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