Quotes from Theodore Bikel

'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?

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

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

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

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.

Audiences are audiences.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

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.