Top 63 Quotes by Theodore Bikel

I always sang, I always acted, I always played.

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

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.

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

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

You learn more from the flops than from the hits.

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

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.

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

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