Adam Sandler Quotes & Sayings

I do want children. I study dads more. I watch what they go through. I admire my father more than I ever did and my brother and my sister. — 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

Eat turkey all night long, 50 million Elvis fans can't be wrong. — 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

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

I think I'm playing grown up because I have kids now. But I don't feel grown up yet. — Adam Sandler

I'd like to have a kid, and I'd like to be driving around. I know a kid is going to be a big part of my life. I can trust my kid. I know my kid would be in the backseat of my car, and when I say You wanna get some ice-cream? he's going to be happy. My brother has kids. I see that trick work, the ice cream trick. — Adam Sandler

The difference when you have kids comes up when someone wants to meet you out after 9:30 at night. You consider that giant sacrifice. You're like, Do I do this? Do I stay out until 10:30 and be angry, all of tomorrow? — 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

I wanted to make sure that I did one movie in my career that mothers hug me for. — Adam Sandler

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

If it's something I feel I can do alright, I like being in those, and some that I think Schneider and Spade would be funnier at than me, I tell them to do it. I don't have any clue how we decide. There's this thing, this Click actually, one of my friends called me up, my partner told me about this idea that Steve Koren had. Steve Koren, by the way, the guy who wrote it with Mark O'Keefe, Steve Koren I've known since I was 22. He was a page at Saturday Night Live. — Adam Sandler

How do I speak Spanish? Not too well. — Adam Sandler

It's nice when little teams win. — Adam Sandler

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. — Adam Sandler

My sisters are stronger and my brother's bigger than me. — Adam Sandler

I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine. — Adam Sandler

When I was a kid you always heard about the Israeli army and you always heard about this tiny little country and how everyone around them wants them gone, and every time somebody comes after them they take care of business. And so as a Jewish kid you were proud of that. — Adam Sandler

My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. — 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 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

Wasted is when you have a hankering for ice cream. — Adam Sandler

I'm in a mood, Dave. A bad mood, a very bad mood! I was fired from my ice cream truck job today! No more Fudgicles! — Adam Sandler

I'm a big fan of money. I like it, I use it, I have a little. I keep it in a jar on top of my refrigerator. I'd like to put more in that jar. That's where you come in. — Adam Sandler

Sitting in a room being forced to listen to 'The Chanukah Song' over and over. [on his idea of Hell] — Adam Sandler

We [ with Andy Samberg] knew each other for the last few years, our names are similar, our looks are a little bit similar, and our backgrounds are similar. The Judaism is quite similar. — Adam Sandler

I don't laugh at me. I used to. I used to get the giggles when I'd see myself. But now, I see myself onscreen, and I sure don't laugh. — Adam Sandler

I'll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies. — Adam Sandler

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

My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing. — Adam Sandler

My name is Adam. My father's name is Adam. Having the same name as your father, it's alright until your voice changes. My friends would always call up, 'Is Adam there?' My father would say, 'This is Adam.' My friends would say, 'Adam, you were so wasted last night.' — Adam Sandler

Like every other rich asshole, I have a cook and he's in my trailer making food all the time. — Adam Sandler

I was a coin collector.I didn't know I was nerdy at the time until I felt my 16-D Mercury Dime that was in uncirculated condition might be a panty dropper, and it turned out not to be. Then I stumbled into skateboarding, which kind of was cooler. But I wasn't aware of what was cool. My dad wasn't around so he couldn't shake me and say, 'Drop the coin collecting bit. It's not where you want to go.' So, that and the spelling bee and the chess, I think I had it figured out for myself. — Adam Sandler

I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason only ... .Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks, — 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

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire! — 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

Your damaged temporal lobe is causing me pain. — 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'm sure everyone's got their back story. I don't come from a place of where I was tortured and needed to let something out. I came from a very happy home. I was a little out of control at times. But my family ... we all liked to be funny, we all liked to make each other laugh. — Adam Sandler

I can't run a company ... I can't even run my own life! — Adam Sandler

I don't like being on a horse. That's the only negative of doing a Western. I like the whole get up, and I look great in a hat. But I get tense around horses. So, if they could make a fake horse, then I'd do a Western. — 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

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

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

Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty. — Adam Sandler

I guess in my house when I was growing up, I was comfortable trying to be funny. And my dad, of course, it bugged him sometimes. He was trying to rest, and I was constantly trying to say something stupid to get a reaction. But I like doing these movies. You can do it in front of the camera and then it's over. I don't have to worry about being in front of too many people. — Adam Sandler

The idea of my kids being spoiled, I go to sleep thinking about it. I wake up thinking about. I'm trying to do the right thing. With the amount of money I have, it's difficult to raise children the way I was raised. But I took away the west and north wing of the house for those guys. So, they're not allowed in there. — Adam Sandler

Never seen my friends do more push-ups, trying to challenge Cruises' manhood. It was like, I can be strong, too! — Adam Sandler

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

My buddies, we've always just tried to make each other laugh. I mean, just like all friends hanging out - that's the goal. — 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, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl ... or boy. — Adam Sandler

Mama says that, happiness is from magic rays of sunshine that come down when you're feeling blue ... — Adam Sandler

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

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

With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised. — 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

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. — Adam Sandler

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

I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket. — 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

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. — 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

It's hard to soar with the eagles when you're surrounded by turkeys. — Adam Sandler

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 and I hope to make a movie that; I hope my kid enjoys the movies I've made and enjoys some of the movies in the future. — Adam Sandler

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. — 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

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

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

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 choose to ignore hell in my life. When I was a little kid I asked my Dad "Am I going to go to hell?" because I'd heard about hell. And he said, "Nothing you're gonna do will get you into hell." And so I got to ignore it. — Adam Sandler

I like sitting and writing with my buddies. — 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

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

Paul Newman's half Jewishand Florence Henderson's half, tooPut them together,What a fine looking Jew! — Adam Sandler

Having a kid is great ... as long as his eyes are closed and he's not moving or speaking. — Adam Sandler

I don't want to run around with new people. I feel safer with my friends. — 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

I still like some of the stuff, skateboarding. Just stupid things. — 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

Hanukkah is ... the festival of lights, instead of one day of presents, we get eight crazy nights — 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

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

Of course, I peed my pants, everyone my age pees their pants. It's the coolest — Adam Sandler

Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh. — Adam Sandler

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

It's just weird that out of nowhere God said, May the three best-looking guys in Hollywood have babies - Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and me. It was bizarre that God said, I want to make the planet more beautiful, and I got the call. — 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

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

I've always wanted to do a family movie. — Adam Sandler

You've just got to give yourself time - that's good advice I think. Give yourself time to figure out what you're good at and what you're not good at. — Adam Sandler

Wrap the turkey up in aluminum foil, my brother like to masturbate with baby oil. — 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

Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me. — 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

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