Quotes About Culture

Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.

My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish.

If you are a Rothschild, a Rosenwald, a Gimbel, or even a Waldbaum, growing up Jewish can be a rich experience. For the rest of us, it could be just so-so.

I just think of myself as a comedian, really. I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.

Most people are blown away by the fact that Beck is Jewish... and Billy Joel. I didn't know he was Jewish.

I've always been proud of my body, my Jewish nose and all of that. Hollywood's Hollywood, but that's not going to change.

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.

Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.

I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.

My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home.

I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.

I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.

I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.

I don't know much about any of the Hasidim because the men won't talk to me because I'm a woman, and the women won't talk to me because, while I am Jewish, I'm not Hasidic.

I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.

I've always enjoyed the communal side of Jewish life.

No one in my family is Jewish; no one was raised as a Jew, me included.

If you research history, I think we are all Jewish. It's the original culture.

As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.

I'm a good girl, and I have a very good Jewish family who brought me up very well.

At school, I never had a hold on English history, and cheder was a place run by sadistic incompetents, so I felt alienated from the Jewish part of my past.