Theodore Bikel Quotes

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

I enjoy theatre tremendously, and there's nothing like a live performance.

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it.

I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years.

The stage is near and dear to me.

The stage is home, and there's no place like it.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

The only thing that matters is the theater!

I want to do stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, 'There's nothing like live theater, blah blah,' but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.

I just loved being in the theatre with all those crazy, creative people.

The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.

I used to like doing school plays.

I loved entertainment and acting, performing. I just liked the stage and having the spotlight and stuff.

Ever since I was a child, I was fascinated by show business, the theater.

My parents were in the theater so I was always somewhat surrounded by it.

My love is the theater.

I love just a stage.

I started a theater company when I was 17.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage.

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.