Henny Youngman Quotes

Most people don't seem to know that I am Jewish.

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

Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, I grew up around a lot of Jews. I grew up culturally Jewish, ethnically Jewish, but without real belief and without a strong faith.

I was not a very good Jew. I never practised what Judaism tells you to do, to teach your kids all about Judaism.

I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.

I was the kind of Jew who'd be in a bar, somebody would say it's Yom Kippur, and I'd go, 'Really?'

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.

I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.

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

We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.

I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.

The relation between Judaism, Zionism, and Messianism is one that is often hard for Jews to get straight. Needless to say, it is even harder for non-Jews.

I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.

No matter where you go in this world, you will always find a Jew sitting in the beach chair next to you.

I had always known that I was Jewish - we celebrated the holidays, we went to a synagogue - but I had never known that I was supposed to feel ashamed about it.

Comedy historians take note: this Gottfried character doesn't have the best eye for detail - and, for a Jew, he doesn't have the best eye for retail, either.

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.

I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.

One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.

I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.