Henry Winkler Quotes & Sayings

Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path. — Henry Winkler

Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow. — Henry Winkler

When I'm on a set, and I'm in between a scene or on a plane waiting, I read Twitter and I love it. — Henry Winkler

Ten out of ten people die, so don't take life too seriously. — Henry Winkler

The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and its sold out for all performances. — Henry Winkler

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. — Henry Winkler

When you love what you do, then you're talking to one of the luckiest guys on the face of the earth. — Henry Winkler

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. — Henry Winkler

It is not easy to compete when you have LD, but it is possible. — Henry Winkler

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. — Henry Winkler

I truly believe fishing is like a washing machine for your brain — Henry Winkler

Not every child learns the same way. I could not learn through my eyes. Reading was impossible. Math, to compute it in my mind, was impossible. I learned everything through listening. — Henry Winkler

In school, I was an underachiever. — Henry Winkler

Making a show is also economics. Because the irony is, or the shame of it is, you cannot create a show instantaneously. It needs to be massaged. You need to see who is relating to who. How is it working with the audience? You need to give it a chance for the audience to find it, because there are so many outlets. And the audience doesn't know where to go. — Henry Winkler

Wes Craven is a wonderful friend, and we had a really good time together. — Henry Winkler

That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you heard Howard Cunningham talking to Marian about shopping? Too many. — Henry Winkler

Producing came about because I never wanted to be in one of those books, Where Are They Now? — Henry Winkler

It was surreal to think the Queen of England not only knew who I was but thought enough of what I do to give me an award. — Henry Winkler

It is the parent's job to see how their child learns and to make sure that the children's self confidence is buoyed at all times, or they will plummet like a stone. — Henry Winkler

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. — Henry Winkler

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. — Henry Winkler

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. — Henry Winkler

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. — Henry Winkler

You see, I don't know how to ride a motorcycle, actually. — Henry Winkler

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself. — Henry Winkler

As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability. — Henry Winkler

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. — Henry Winkler

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. — Henry Winkler

When I was growing up, I was told I was stupid and that I would never achieve. I suffered from dyslexia, and in those days it wasn't recognised. — Henry Winkler

Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. — Henry Winkler

You cannot represent cool. You've got to be cool. You've got to be authentic. I think, after all these years, that is how I define cool. It is being authentic. That is powerful. — Henry Winkler

If you make compelling television, they will come. — Henry Winkler

Music takes us where words cannot. — Henry Winkler

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. — Henry Winkler

How we learn has nothing to do with how brilliant we are. — Henry Winkler

To have people like my work, even if it's my old work, I can't ask for nothing nicer than that. — Henry Winkler