Theodore Bikel World Quotations

I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts.

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.

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

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

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.

In my world, history comes down to language and art.