The Jazz Singer

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet! Wait a minute, I tell ya! You ain't heard nothin'! You wanna hear "Toot, Toot, Tootsie"? All right, hold on, hold on... [walks back to one of the band members] Lou, listen. Play "Toot, Toot, Tootsie", three chorus, you understand. In the third chorus, I whistle. Now give it to 'em hard and heavy, go right ahead."

"We in the show business have our religion too - on every day, the show must go on!"

"I came home with a heart full of love, but you don't want to understand. Some day you'll understand, the same as Mama does."

"My son was to stand at my side and sing tonight – but now I have no son."

"My son came to me in my dreams—he sang Kol Nidre so beautifully. If he would only sing like that tonight—surely he would be forgiven."

"[Listening to Jakie cantoring at Yom Kippur services after the death of his father] A jazz singer...singing to his God!"

"There are lots of jazz singers, but you have a tear in your voice."

"Here he belongs. If God wanted him in His house, He would have kept him there. He's not my boy anymore—he belongs to the whole world now."

"Do what is in your heart, Jakie—if you sing and God is not in your voice — your father will know."

"What a little boy learns - he never forgets."

"See him---and hear him sing!"

"Hear what you see - see what you hear."

"The supreme triumph the world has ever known in the Motion Picture Industry."

"Mammy's favorite son!"

"Al Jolson - Jakie Rabinowitz (Jack Robin)"

"Warner Oland - Cantor Rabinowitz"

"Eugenie Besserer - Sara Rabinowitz"

"May McAvoy - Mary Dale"

"Otto Lederer - Moisha Yudelson"

"Richard Tucker - Harry Lee"

"Yossele Rosenblatt - himself"

"Bobby Gordon - Jakie Rabinowitz (age 13)"