Quote

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.

Theodore Bikel

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
Businessperson
Film Actor
Musician
Politician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
Language
Left
Another
Live
Entered
Come
Risk
Country
Though
Age
Learn

More quotes by Theodore Bikel

Image
In my world, history comes down to language and art.
Theodore Bikel
Image
'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
Image
I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
Theodore Bikel
Image
I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.
Theodore Bikel
Image
Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
Theodore Bikel
Image
I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
Theodore Bikel
Image
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
Image
As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
Theodore Bikel
Image
For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
Theodore Bikel
Image
I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
Theodore Bikel
Image
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
Theodore Bikel
Image
Audiences are audiences.
Theodore Bikel
Image
I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
Theodore Bikel
Image
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.
Theodore Bikel
Image
It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
Theodore Bikel
Image
I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
Theodore Bikel
Image
Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.
Theodore Bikel
Image
Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'
Theodore Bikel
Image
You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.
Theodore Bikel
Image
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