Amy Heckerling Quotes

I was bar mitzvahed, which was hard. I feel it was the hardest thing I ever had to do; harder than making a movie. It was a lot of studying, you know. I wasn't a perfect Hebrew reader, and also, they say when you're reading your Torah portion, you're not supposed to memorize it. It turned out very tricky.

I was bar mitzvahed at Beth Shalom, and I had trouble. I didn't quite get it all.

When the opportunity presented itself, I had never been bar mitzvahed. I wasn't going to pass it up.

I went to Hebrew school but opted out of a bar mitzvah.

Well yes, my son was bar mitzvahed last April, after I made this film.

I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it.

A Bar Mitzvah is the time in his life when a Jewish boy realizes he has a better chance of owning a team than playing for one.

I consider myself a Jewish writer - even if my characters frequently are not Jewish - in the same way, I guess, that I consider myself a Jewish man, even though I don't often attend shul.

I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.

Growing up in New Jersey, bat mitzvas were all about the elegant parties.

I did go to cheder and was a bar mitzvah. We were members of an Orthodox synagogue, although we were not religious. My grandfather was Polish. He came to Ireland in the '30s.

I like being Jewish and I married a Jewish girl. It's like a way of life and it's good to be able to instil some of that sense of being in your kids. All of that makes me seem as though I am quite observant but actually the flipside of this is I don't know if there is a God or not.

My great grandfather was the last practicing Jew in my family. He died in 1982.

I love being Jewish, but I think that our generation is the first generation that crossed that line between being a cultural versus a practicing Jew.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

We are committed to raising our children as Jews. I knew that it had to start with me at a greater level, at a deeper level, if it was going to be a meaningful example to them.

Every bar mitzvah I ever went to was, 'Here comes 'Oh, What a Night.'

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

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

I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one.

I had a Hebraic wedding in New York, so I'm definitely Jewish.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.

When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.