"Golde, I am the man in the family! I am the head of the house! And I want to see Motel's new machine now! [looks inside Motel's house for barely a second] Now let's go home!"

"[to God] Am I bothering You too much? I'm sorry. As the good book says... aaahh, why should I tell You what the Good Book says?"

"[Last lines] All right, children. Let's go."

"As the good book says, when a poor man eats a chicken, one of them is sick."

"On the other hand, how can I turn my back on my faith, my people? If I try and bend that far, I'll break. On the other hand... No. There is no other hand."

"If God lived on earth, people would break His windows."

"Ah, children, they are your blessing in your old age. But of course my Aaron couldn't give me children. Between you and me, Golde, he hardly tried."

"Not everyone is a man!"

"Hodel: [to Tevye] The world is changing, Papa."

"Fyedka: [introducing himself to Chava] I'm a pleasant fellow - charming, honest, ambitious, quite bright, and very modest."

"Hodel: We only have one Rabbi, and he only has one son. Why shouldn't I want the best?"

"Motel: If the rich could hire others to die for them, we, the poor, would all make a nice living."

"Motel: Even a poor tailor is entitled to some happiness!"

"Motel: You'll all chatter yourselves away into the grave."

"A tradition"

"The screen's most magnificent entertainment returns... filled with joy, laughter, love and life."

"Shout It From The Rooftops!"

"Chaim Topol - Tevye"

"Norma Crane - Golde"

"Leonard Frey -Motel Kamzoil"

"Molly Picon - Yente"

"Paul Mann - Lazar Wolfe"

"Rosalind Harris - Tzeitel"

"Michele Marsh - Hodel"

"Michael Glaser - Perchik"

"Anjelica Huston - Dolores Paley"

"Jack lives in the real world. You live in the kingdom of heaven. I'd managed to keep free of that real world, but suddenly it's found me."

"Sam Waterston - Ben"

"Jerry Orbach - Jack Rosenthal"

"I'll be honest. You're not my first choice."

"Idea for a farce. A poor...loser does a documentary of a great man and in the process learns some deep values."

"If it bends it's funny. If it breaks, it's not funny."

"But we must always remember that when we are born we need a great deal of love in order to persuade us to stay in life. Once we get that love it usually lasts us. But the universe is a pretty cold place. It is we who invest it with our feelings. And under certain conditions, we feel the thing isn’t worth it any more."

"I've gone out the window."

"When we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom you were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted on us. So, love contains in it the contradiction, the attempts to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past."

"We're all faced throughout our lives with agonizing decisions, moral choices. Some are on a grand scale, most of these choices are on lesser points. But we define ourselves by the choices we have made. We are, in fact, the sum total of our choices. Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, Human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more."

"We really do have to go. I have to get up at dawn and teach Emily Dickinson to a bunch of upper-middle class crack addicts."

"[after Levy's suicide] I got 600,000 feet of film on this guy. And he's telling how great life is and everything and now, you know. What am I gonna do? I'll cut it up and make it into guitar picks."

"Honey, you're the one who stopped sleeping with me, okay? It'll be a year come April 20th. I remember the date exactly, because it was Hitler's birthday."

"A strange man defecated on my sister."

"The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty."

"What's the guy so upset about? You'd think nobody was ever compared to Mussolini before."

"I don't know from suicide. Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide - they were too unhappy."

"I think I see a cab. If we run quickly we can kick the crutch from that old lady and get it."

"While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like."

"Show business is, is dog-eat-dog. It's worse than dog-eat-dog. It's dog-doesn't-return-other-dog's-phone-calls. You know, it's just terrible. Which reminds me, I should really check my service. I don't know why, I haven't had a message in seven years! You know, I call up and I hear the girls on the other end giggling."

"When he tells you he wants to exchange ideas, what he really wants is to exchange fluids."

"Joanna Gleeson - Wendy Stern"

"One sin leads to a deeper sin."

"I remember my father telling me, "The eyes of God are on us always." The eyes of God. What a phrase to a young boy. What were God's eyes like? Unimaginably penetrating, intense eyes, I assumed. And I wonder if it was just a coincidence that I made my specialty ophthalmology."