Theodore Bikel
Theodore Bikel
Theodore Meir Bikelwas an Austrian-American Jewish actor, folk singer, musician, composer, and activist...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth2 May 1924
CityVienna, Austria
CountryAustria
stage granddaddy
I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
actors proud
I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.
want actors direct
Every actor wants to direct.
audience
Audiences are audiences.
advent given mass
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.
travel new-york world
You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.
grateful omission people
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.
hate gun bombs
We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.
book attachment age
We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.
world might way
One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.
perception world paper
Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.
flops learn
You learn more from the flops than you do from the hits.
claim cultures jewish superior
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.
beauty heaps hopelessly manure sing tried work worker
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.