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
equality causes humans
I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
accents very-good
Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good.
stage ends middle
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.
integrity exercise facts
I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.
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.
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.