I met Evan Goldberg at bar-mitzvah class. It was called tallis and tefillin. — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
When the opportunity presented itself, I had never been bar mitzvahed. I wasn't going to pass it up. — Carlos Lopez-Cantera Copy Share Image
Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry. (Psalms 88:2) — Bible Copy Share Image
I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl. — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Do I do bar mitzvahs? No. You know, you've gotta draw a line somewhere. — Sir Mix-a-Lot Copy Share Image
“Theo, Celery doesn't think you should invite Lulu to your hypothetical Bar Mitzvah.” — Gitty Daneshvari Copy Share Image
We have birthdays and bar mitzvahs and funerals and weddings. And these ceremonies and rituals, I believe, really help us transition from… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V.… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway… — Sami Gayle Copy Share Image
Ironically, my rabbi was a bar mitzvah Nazi. So I got bar mitzvahed. And though I didn't want to, the theme of… — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
I fought tooth and nail: I didn't want to learn Hebrew. My Bar Mitzvah came around, and I didn't want to read… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
People need what they think of as a poem to be read at their bar mitzvah, their wedding, a funeral, whatever. And… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers' unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I'm not a lawyer I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
At some point in your life, if you live in Venezuela, you come across or own a cuatro. Either at school, either… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
I actually got thrown into my Bar Mitzvah because my teacher, my Cantor, did not tell me that they would all say… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
“Until he turned twelve, Nimrod was a shitty person. The kind of whiner that, if he wasn’t your best friend, you’d have… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father… — Lew Wasserman Copy Share Image
I was one of those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When 1:45 came, half the class left, and Danny Hupfer whispered, "If she gives you a cream puff after we leave, I'm… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“practice, the synagogue generally limits its services only to members in the area of bat or bar mitzvah. Most life-cycle events (outside… — Kerry M. Olitzky Copy Share Image
Becoming an actor wasn’t a choice – it was something I was forced into. At 3, you can’t make those choices... I… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
I saw the most frightening, most depressing sight I had ever seen - a row of stores with Stars of David and… — Harpo Marx Copy Share Image
“I had survived the work gangs in the ghetto. Baked bread under cover of night. Hidden in a pigeon coop. Had a… — Alan Gratz Copy Share Image
“I would be quite content to go to their children's bar mitzvahs, to marvel at their Gothic cathedrals, to 'respect' their belief… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The ceremony was fast so we wouldn't be caught. When it was over, the men all whispered 'Mazel tov' and climbed back… — Alan Gratz Copy Share Image
“Let’s call it the theory of receptivity. It’s the idea, often cited by young people in their case against the relevance of… — Michelle Orange Copy Share Image
“Daniel." He looked up. "El-la.I was wondering if you'd catch me." He offered me a cigarette. I gave him a shame-on-you look;he… — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
“Gogol flips through the book. A single picture at the front, on smoother paper than the rest of the pages, shows a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“hegemony of the modern synagogue. These are the events that surround birth, coming of age, marriage (including divorce), and death. Many synagogues… — Kerry M. Olitzky Copy Share Image
“I know I am a child because I have been to more bar mitzvahs than funerals.” — Leigh Stein Copy Share Image
I went to bar mitzvahs as a kid. I had a lot of classmates who are Jewish. — John David Washington Copy Share Image
I was the - my trendsetting moment was my bar mitzvah had the first, like, temporary tattoo guy. — Evan Goldberg Copy Share Image
