Adam Sandler Quotes

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

— Adam Sandler

“I know I want to always do the best I can.”

— 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

“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

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

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

How do I speak Spanish? Not too well.

— 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 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

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

— 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

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 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

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

— 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

“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

I can handle pain.

— Adam Sandler

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

— Adam Sandler

“Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.”

— Adam Sandler

“Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl ... or boy.”

— 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'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

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

— Adam Sandler

“I'm just looking to make good movies and looking to be as good as I can be in them and that's about it. But I feel much more comfortable doing a comedy, but the fact that I got to try a few dramas, I feel I've tested myself a little bit.”

— Adam Sandler

“Of course, I peed my pants, everyone my age pees their pants. It's the coolest”

— Adam Sandler

“The toughest part is that when your kid's upset, you're upset. You're rocked until they're not upset. Even when they're not upset, you're like, "I hope that doesn't happen, down the line." You're always nervous because you want your kid to be happy.”

— 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 was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.”

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

— Adam Sandler

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.

— Adam Sandler

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

— Adam Sandler

“It's hard to soar with the eagles when you're surrounded by turkeys.”

— Adam Sandler

I kinda feel like an idiot sometimes. Although I am an idiot, so it kinda works out.

— 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

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

— Adam Sandler

“I've got the kid. I feel a little more relief that I don't have to just think about myself too much.”

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“I can't run a company ... I can't even run my own life!”

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“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.”

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“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

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

— Adam Sandler

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

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

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“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

“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.”

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“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 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 finished a big book the other day. 421 pages. That's a lot of coloring when you think about it.”

— Adam Sandler