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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? "

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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

Serious

Alive

Doubt

" Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route. "

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

" 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. "

" You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them. "

" But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist. "

Theodore Bikel

I Am

Jewish

" You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else. "

" I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor. "

" 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

" I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent. "

Theodore Bikel

God

Claim

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

" 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 filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder. "

Theodore Bikel

Sense

Awe

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory. "

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

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

" You learn more from the flops than from the hits. "

Theodore Bikel

Than

Flops

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

" '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. "

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

" I created the role of Captain Von Trapp. "

" Every actor wants to direct. "

" 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'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone. "

" 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. "