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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

Action

Endurance

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

" I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew. "

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

" '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? "

" I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings. "

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

" 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. "

" 'Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really. "

" There is no role I cannot play except a midget. "

" 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. "

Theodore Bikel

Right

Critic

" If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to. "

" For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles. "

" No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. "

" You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition. "

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

" The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before. "

" When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience. "

" I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation. "

" Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples. "

" I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words. "

" 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. "

" I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" I am not, and have never been, in favor of boycotting Israel. "

Theodore Bikel

Been

Never

" 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? "

" Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know? "