“I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.”
― Adam Sandler
“Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.”
― Adam Sandler
“When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.”
― Adam Sandler
“God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.”
― Adam Sandler
“My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.”
― Adam Sandler
“Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!”
― Adam Sandler
“I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.”
― Adam Sandler
“I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.”
― Adam Sandler
“When I’m up there, and I know the show’s coming to a close, in my head I’m saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That’s what I don’t like so much.”
― Adam Sandler
“This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.”
― Adam Sandler
“I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.”
― Adam Sandler
“I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.”
― Adam Sandler
“I can handle pain.”
― Adam Sandler
“Now that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.”
― Adam Sandler
“I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.”
― Adam Sandler
“To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.”
― Adam Sandler
“My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.”
― Adam Sandler
“I know I want to always do the best I can.”
― Adam Sandler
“I’m filthy rich!”
― Adam Sandler
“The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don’t notice they’re getting made fun of. So they’ll say something back that’s not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.”
― Adam Sandler
“Girls are soft and pretty.”
― Adam Sandler
“I grew up cursing a lot.”
― Adam Sandler
“Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.”
― Adam Sandler
“My comedy is different every time I do it. I don’t know what the hell I’m doing.”
― Adam Sandler
“I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.”
― Adam Sandler
“I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.”
― Adam Sandler
“My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.”
― Adam Sandler
“It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.”
― Adam Sandler
“Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.”
― Adam Sandler
“I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.”
― Adam Sandler
“When I’m around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you’re supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.”
― Adam Sandler
“With the amount of money I have, it’s difficult raising children the way I was raised.”
― Adam Sandler
“I like sitting and writing with my buddies.”
― Adam Sandler
“How do I speak Spanish? Not too well.”
― Adam Sandler
“I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.”
― Adam Sandler
“I’m not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, ‘All right! Get out of the room.’”
― Adam Sandler
“As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.”
― Adam Sandler
“In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.”
― Adam Sandler
“Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.”
― Adam Sandler
“Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!”
― Adam Sandler
“I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.”
― Adam Sandler
“My sisters are stronger and my brother’s bigger than me.”
― Adam Sandler
“I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.”
― Adam Sandler
“I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.”
― Adam Sandler
“You know, when you don’t go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly ‘in the know,’ start whispering that you’re gay. If I were gay, I wouldn’t be ashamed to admit it, but I’m not.”
― Adam Sandler
“I never had a speech from my father ‘this is what you must do or shouldn’t do’ but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn’t perfect.”
― Adam Sandler
“I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‘Maria’ from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.”
― Adam Sandler
“I’m not comfortable being around too many people. I don’t like being out in public too much. I don’t like going to bars. I don’t like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don’t always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.”
― Adam Sandler
“We just bought this house. It’s too big. It’s like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It’s just too big.”
― Adam Sandler
“When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.”
― Adam Sandler
“I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.”
― Adam Sandler
“I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.”
― Adam Sandler
“When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I’d get so panicked that I would stutter.”
― Adam Sandler
“My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don’t have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don’t pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.”
― Adam Sandler
“I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.”
― Adam Sandler
“Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.”
― Adam Sandler
“The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.”
― Adam Sandler
“I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.”
― Adam Sandler
“I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?”
― Adam Sandler
“A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I’ve always worked hard.”
― Adam Sandler
“I’ll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.”
― Adam Sandler
“In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.”
― Adam Sandler
“Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.”
― Adam Sandler
“I’ve always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B’nai B’rith at our house.”
― Adam Sandler
“My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn’t like that.”
― Adam Sandler
“SNL is a home. You’ve got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it’s a great time.”
― Adam Sandler
“I wasn’t a kid growing up thinking, ‘One day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech.’ That wasn’t on my mind.”
― Adam Sandler
“When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.”
― Adam Sandler
“Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‘All right, that about sums it up.’”
― Adam Sandler
“I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.”
― Adam Sandler
“When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.”
― Adam Sandler
“I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.”
― Adam Sandler
“It’s nice when little teams win.”
― Adam Sandler
“I’ve always wanted to do a family movie.”
― Adam Sandler
“When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.”
― Adam Sandler
“Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.”
― Adam Sandler
“I’ve always had lots of friends and my house was the house they all hung out at.”
― Adam Sandler
“Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.”
― Adam Sandler
“I don’t know what drives me to succeed.”
― Adam Sandler
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