In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace. — Theodore Bikel City Copy Share Image
I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive. — Theodore Bikel Chance Copy Share Image
No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation. — Theodore Bikel Animation Copy Share Image
I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures.… — Theodore Bikel Arrogance Copy Share Image
All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use… — Theodore Bikel Arrogance Copy Share Image
I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and… — Theodore Bikel Artistic Copy Share Image
You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might… — Theodore Bikel Goals Copy Share Image
Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
I don't speak out because I am an actor nor will I keep silent because I am an actor. I respect my… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand… — Theodore Bikel Bored Copy Share Image
In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them… — Theodore Bikel Art Copy Share Image
If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I… — Theodore Bikel Art Copy Share Image
I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to… — Theodore Bikel Freedom Copy Share Image
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… — Theodore Bikel Funny Copy Share Image
We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory. — Theodore Bikel Age Copy Share Image
You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk… — Theodore Bikel Age Copy Share Image
As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government. — Theodore Bikel Art Copy Share Image
I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when… — Theodore Bikel Ardent Copy Share Image
No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist. — Theodore Bikel Art Copy Share Image
