Theodore Bikel

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#agricultural #around #beauty #bored #doing

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

— Theodore Bikel

#anyone #being #exceedingly #i #never

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. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#done #haven #i #like #only

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

— Theodore Bikel

#israel #mind #obstacle #peace #serious

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

— Theodore Bikel

#cannot #declarations #desired #doubt #into

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

— Theodore Bikel

#declarations #desired #doubt #mere #no doubt

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

— Theodore Bikel

#captures #humankind #language #past

No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#animation #caught #exist #movement #state

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. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#beginning #end #funny #hear #live

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. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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