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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

Here

Child

Celebrate

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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. "

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" Audiences are audiences. "

Theodore Bikel

Audiences

" It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.' "

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Than

Flops

" I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong. "

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Critic

" 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

Respect

Speak

" I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts. "

" No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation. "

" I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all. "

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" 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. "

" '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? "

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" In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace. "

" 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. "

" Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good. "

" 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? "

" No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations. "

" 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. "

Theodore Bikel

People

I Am

" 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. "

" Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out. "

" 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.' "