Bar mitzvah Quotes · Page 3

In a bar mitzvah, you do the candle-lighting ceremony with the cake. Every birthday, the cake is the big moment.

— Ron Ben-Israel

I suppose the nearest equivalent to a bar mitzvah in terms of emotional build-up would probably not even be one's wedding day,…

— Maureen Lipman

I was the - my trendsetting moment was my bar mitzvah had the first, like, temporary tattoo guy.

— Evan Goldberg

I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline.

— Idina Menzel

I don't dance. I don't like to dance, I don't dance in clubs, bar mitzvahs, weddings, none of that. It's not me.

— Jason Taylor

Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

— R. L. Stine

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

— Jeremy Piven

I just went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah. No crazy weird Jewish cult.

— Hayden Schlossberg

I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of…

— Bruce Springsteen

I don't remember much about my bar mitzvah. The only thing I remember - I killed! That's what I remembered. Nobody could…

— Andy Kindler

I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a…

— Tony Kushner

When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the…

— Ron Ben-Israel

I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs.…

— Gloria Steinem

I've had a bris, was Bar Mitzvahed and, on occasion, have referred to a temple as a shul. I've never denied it,…

— Alan Zweibel

My brother had been given a chemistry set for his bar mitzvah, but he wasn't interested in it. It was upstairs in…

— Eileen Pollack

I remember going to a son's friend's bar mitzvah, and the text that he chose to explicate was right at the beginning…

— Claire Messud

After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth…

— Joel Grey

I just enjoyed bar mitzvahs as a kid, and there was this company in the Detroit area where I grew up, and…

— James Wolk

I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or…

— Robert Pinsky

I was Jewish, through and through, although in our house that didn't mean a whole lot. We never went to synagogue. I…

— Gilbert Gottfried

[I had Bar mitzvah ]it was just me and my mom. And she's celebrating. And she's reading things to me in Hebrew.…

— Trevor Noah

Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with…

— Carey Mulligan

Admitting that we ourselves are bar mitzvah boys is our way of letting non-Jews as well as Jews in the audience know…

— Bryan Fogel

I feel like when I was 13 and I had to go to Bar Mitzvahs every weekend, and this is like the…

— Jesse Eisenberg

You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totally insane time in…

— James Wolk

There was a year straight where every weekend, I went to at least one bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah, and we would…

— Seth Rogen

There were lots of little boys having their bar mitzvahs all over the world, and they sent me tapes of some of…

— Oprah Winfrey

I struggled with being a Latino growing up in Los Angeles. I felt very American. I still do. I went to 35…

— America Ferrera

When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My…

— Ellie Goulding

The loss of my father marked my life. I'm 88 years old and I'm still mourning him because it's such a drama…

— Frank Lowy

My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape…

— Adam Pally

What's funny is I probably still have some calligraphy business cards floating out in the world, and I can't wait for someone…

— Meghan Markle

When my father came out on stage wearing a big cowboy hat and a shirt lettered 'Bar Mitzvah Ranch' to sing 'Home…

— Joel Grey