Adam Quotes

You should be willing to do something that will take you five minutes or less for anybody.

The damned cats like pushing the reset button on my computer.

Everyone (consciously or subconsciously) feels alone too - but no matter what, we're actually ALL together.

I'm inspired by the work of those (and sometimes even the people themselves) who strive to inspire.

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

I suspect states are going to realize there's money to be made, and they'll start to change laws so people can distil to sell. It happened with wine, it happened with beer.

Distilling is such a strange and arcane art, still. Not quite a science yet, but when someone's making something weird, I like to know about it.

Typically we don't think of cities as being particularly extreme environments, but few places on earth get as hot as a rooftop or as dry as the corner of a heated living room.

From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize each other's style by their dots and dashes.

Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.

You know, as I've grown older, my ideas about sin have changed. I used to believe that sins were things you did, but I don't think that now. I think sins are what you ignore.

People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

First of all, Mets fans despise me.

I think it would be great if more adults were able to maintain that joyful creativity that we all experience as children.

I did rocks, all this dumb stuff. But now it's just trying to stay afloat and just get through the days.

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.

I don't want want to go to jail, I'm fragile.

I think when I bought a house, that's when I thought I felt like that's a grown up thing to do.

I wish I was a better athlete. That would have been a little cooler, being a great boxer and walking into a room and going: "I can knock everybody out!" That's a good feeling.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

I've always wanted to do a family movie.

I enjoy doing all different types of movies even though I am the most comfortable with comedy.

My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire.

I still like doing stand-up now, but it's not the same. It used to be that I was out there with five other comedians. Now I usually just do it alone.

I've always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B'nai B'rith at our house.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

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.

I don't know what the hell I'm doing; I like what I've been doing. I believe in what I've done in the past; I hope my kid enjoys the movies I've made and enjoys some of the movies in the future.

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.

I've always had lots of friends and my house was the house they all hung out at.

Some of us will never ever find true love. Take, for instance me. And I'm pretty sure that guy right there. And that lady with the sideburns. And basically everybody at table nine.

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.

It's nice when little teams win.

I do feel good doing them [family-friendly movies], but it's not going to be my way of life. I'm a comedian.

I'm filthy rich! It's good to be Adam Sandler!

I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can. I never was like that as a kid.

I like sitting and writing with my buddies.

My hobbies are run-on sentences.

I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff.

The only reason I got into stand-up was because my brother told me to. I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I was 17 and my brother went to a comedy club and he said - you can do that.

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.

I've always liked older ladies. I'm comfortable with it. They seem to be nice. They've seen it all.

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.

I grew up in a house that liked to be funny. Everybody liked to be funny. My family's been...we've been enjoying each other's comedy for years.

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.

The fact that you can see a movie at home, it's great. You're making it for as many people to see it as possible. And that's nice.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

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.