Quotes by Theodore Bikel - Page 2

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.
Theodore Bikel / Actor
Arrogance
Jewish Culture
Moving
Other Cultures
Pride
Jewish
Claim
Cultures
Neither
Sectarian
Superior
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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.
Theodore Bikel / Actor
Exercise
Facts
Glory
Integrity
Multiple
Proficiency
Talents
Exercises
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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.
Theodore Bikel / Actor
Celebrate
Children
Hymns
Israel
Jewish
Arab
Deed
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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.
Theodore Bikel / Actor
Might
Moral
Terrorism
Way
World
Acts
Punishing
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'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?
Theodore Bikel / Actor
Green
Play
Visiting
Wonderful
Mr
Colleague
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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.
Theodore Bikel / Actor
Bored
Manure
Agricultural
Worker
Hopelessly
Sing
Tried
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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.
Theodore Bikel / Actor
Arrogance
Humility
Justice
Moral
Strong
Accompanied
Strength Power Always
Assume
Choice
Power Strength Always
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Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.
Theodore Bikel / Actor
Artist
Concerts
Labels
Resent
Theatre
Jewish
Disapprove
Work I Am Body
Label
Viewed
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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.
Theodore Bikel / Actor
Bored
Hopeless
Workers
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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.
Theodore Bikel / Actor
Battle
Deprivation
Documentaries
Endurance
Hunger
Memories
Nobility
Soul
Starvation
Inform
Prod
Showing
Stir
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In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
Theodore Bikel / Actor
Art
History
Lost
No One Cares
Painting
Play
Song
World History
Art History World
Battles
Cares
Won
Event
Fought
Poem
Speaks
Unless
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
Theodore Bikel / Actor
Art
Austria
Country
France
Ireland
Pride
Survival
Sweden
Understood
Cultural
Poorer
Smaller
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You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.
Theodore Bikel / Actor
Laughing
Six
Six Months
Vacuums
Time Always Your
Audiences
Time May Always
Draw
Experiences
Laugh
Vacuum
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While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.
Theodore Bikel / Actor
Agree
Alive
Components
Doubt
Fragmented
Ideology
Movement
Ongoing
Practice
Zionist
Ideal
Proposition
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I am first, and foremost, an actor. That's what I am. To me, a song is a mini-drama. My musical ability informs the actor as well because it gives me a sense of timing that non-musicians don't have. So, one hand washes the other.
Theodore Bikel / Actor
Drama
Musical Ability
Song
Timing
I Am Me Song
Me I Am Song
Foremost
Informs
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I don't speak out because I am an actor nor will I keep silent because I am an actor. I respect my profession, but it endows me with no special privileges; but it also does not limit me or muzzle me. I am a person and a citizen with the attendant responsibilities of voice and vote.
Theodore Bikel / Actor
Profession
Responsibility
Silent
Speaks Out
Voice
Respect I Am Me
Attendant
Citizen
Limit
Privileges
Responsibilities
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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.
Theodore Bikel / Actor
Entitled
Glimpse
Simple
Theory
World
Jewish
Appeal
Constructed
Sentiment
Jews
Narrowly
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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.'
Theodore Bikel / Actor
Knowledge
Alas
Approach
Danger
Emulate
Fashion
Imitating
Producers
Sean
Theatre
Thinking
Type
Life Great Done
Life Knowledge Great
Tv
Actor
Basis
Connery
Dealing
Frequently
Instead
Role
Supposed
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John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.
Theodore Bikel / Actor
Character
Directors
Doe
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