Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow.
Producing is the hardest of the three because there is almost no closure. Every time you solve a problem, another one pops up. Directing is second, and acting is the most fun.
You see, I don’t know how to ride a motorcycle, actually.
A human being’s first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.
When Richie Cunningham drank too many beers, his parents sat him down and explained their concerns. If you live on this earth, you find out that we are all the same.
I truly believe fishing is like a washing machine for your brain.
I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn’t know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck.
Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.
In school, I was an underachiever.
When you love what you do, then you’re talking to one of the luckiest guys on the face of the earth.
Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children’s Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases.
As we sit here and idly chat, there are woman, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and we are making money from that.
The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and its sold out for all performances.
Music takes us where words cannot.
To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.
I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can’t vote.
It is not easy to compete when you have LD, but it is possible.
Somebody asked me if I could go back and start again with a different brain, would I. Years ago I thought yes, I would, and now I know I wouldn’t. Because whatever challenges I had in school, I guess they forced me to where I am today. So I now see them as an asset.
Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.
Hank, you need to be positive about things. Why don’t you try looking at your cup as half full?” “Dad, I’m looking in my cup, and at this moment, I can’t see any liquid whatsoever.