Quotes by Theodore Bikel

Theodore Bikel

‘Visiting Mr. Green’ is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What’s not to like?

Green

Play

Wonderful

Accents. I’m very good with accents. I’m exceedingly good.

Accents

Very Good

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.

Advent

Given

Mass

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.

Humility

Justice

Strong

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.

Grateful

Omission

People

An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don’t fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, ‘This is a Sean Connery type.’

Fashion

Theatre

Thinking

Audiences are audiences.

Audience

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.

Children

Hymns

Israel

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.

Artist

Culture

Toil

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.

Battle

Memories

Soul

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Actors

Advent

Air

Art

Artist

Attachment

Audience

Battle

Believe

Book

Bored

Breaths

Captains

Caught

Causes

Certain

Character

Children

Cities

Compassionate

Convinced

Country

Critics

Culture

Declaration

Direct

Directors

Doe

Doubt

Drama

Equality

Fashion

Faults

Favors

Fear

Given

Giving

Granddaddy

Grateful

Green

Gun

Hate

Heirlooms

Hopeless

Humans

Humility

Hymns

I Can

Israel

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Quotes by Theodore Bikel

Theodore Bikel

‘Visiting Mr. Green’ is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What’s not to like?

Accents. I’m very good with accents. I’m exceedingly good.

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.

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.

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.

Audiences are audiences.

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.

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.

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.

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