Always Quote by Joel Grey

Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For…

— Linda Barnes

Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning variety-of syntax,…

— Israel Shenker

I never learned to speak Yiddish, ever.

— Joel Grey

If you will tell me to have a conversation in Yiddish, I won't, unfortunately know how to do it. But I will understand a…

— Shira Haas

To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

— Theodore Bikel

My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up…

— Ashley Bell

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

— Mike Myers

When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when…

— Mel Brooks

I love the Jews. 1. Yiddish is awesome. 2. Ive never met one who pushed their religion on me.

— Philip DeFranco

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

— Howard Fast

I love dialects and accents; they're something that really resonate with me and that I find fascinating.

— Keegan-Michael Key