Enemies, A Love Story (1989)

Alan King: Rabbi Lembeck

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• Rabbi Lembeck : Lunatics. Crazy people. That's why Hitlers rise up.

• Rabbi Lembeck : Don't be nervous, I won't steal your wife, no matter how many you have.

• Rabbi Lembeck : Masha, you're the most beautiful woman at the party. And my friend Herman here, hid her.

  Pesheles : He's hiding more than one.

  Rabbi Lembeck : You think so? With me, he always played the innocent lamb. I was beginning to believe he was a eunuch.

  Pesheles : I wish I was such a eunuch.

• Herman : I wish I had the wife.

  Rabbi Lembeck : If you want one, you could have one. I picked out a fine woman for you. You wouldn't even meet her. What are you afraid of? You wait long enough, you'll marry a shiksa. The subject for my next speech... "Mixed marriages: The plague of the Jews."

• Rabbi Lembeck : Look, I wanted us to be friends. But there's something about you that makes it very difficult. I could help you a great deal, but you close up like a clam.

  Herman : Uh, maybe. Maybe I am no longer a part of this world.

  Rabbi Lembeck : Clichés. Empty words. I know hundreds of concentration camp survivors, some of them practically on the way to the oven, but they're doing fine. They drive cars, they do business and they have telephones.

  Herman : Maybe that's my problem. I was hiding in a barn.