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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

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" As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government. "

Theodore Bikel

Artist

Interest

" 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

" We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

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

" Every actor wants to direct. "

" I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go. "

Theodore Bikel

Let Go

Keep

" 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. "

" I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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 created the role of Captain Von Trapp. "

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

" 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.' "