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"There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant."
"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."
"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."
"I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him."
"Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him."
"Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch."
"I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible."
Explore more quotes by Theodore Bikel
"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."
"The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before."
"By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul."
"What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine."
"I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words."
"I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family."
"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."
"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."
"No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation."
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