"I am first, and foremost, an actor. That's what I am. To me, a song is a mini-drama. My musical abil..." — Theodore Bikel

It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'

You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.

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.

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.