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
You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
play roles midget
There is no role I cannot play except a midget.
cities israel mind
In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.
artist culture fields
But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
unity doubt declaration
No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.
bored hopeless workers
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.
strong humility justice
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.
art past heirlooms
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
order mixtures needs
You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.
equality causes humans
I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
fighting giving chance
I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
guitar weapons causes
I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.
memories soul battle
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.
hate voice giving
I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.