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
fighting giving chance
I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
equality causes humans
I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
cities israel mind
In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.
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.
simple world glimpse
I refuse to do shows that are narrowly constructed, that appeal to only one sentiment. I do a lot of Jewish material in front of non-Jews and a lot of non-Jewish material in front of Jews on the simple theory that the non-Jews are entitled to a glimpse of a Jewish world and the Jews are entitled to a glimpse of the world.
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.
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.
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.