Adam Sandler Quotes

I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!

My father was very sick around the time I was born. The doctors thought he wouldn't live. He did recover, but I don't remember him as very active. I do remember lots of schtick around the dinner table. Generally, he and my brothers and I were all laughing at the same thing my mother did not find funny, whatever that was.

My dad is funny in his own way, and so is my brother, but in terms of legitimately making a lot of people laugh, that's my mom. I inherit my sense of comedy from her.

I don't think that I could have survived in my family without a naughty sense of humor; yeah, absolutely. I think my brother and I both get our senses of humor from our parents. I mean, my mother was absolutely hilarious and foul. She had the most ridiculously off color sense of humor, so that was sort of what we grew up with.

My dad makes me hiss with laughter.

Our family were very quick to laugh at each other.

Mum and Dad have both got very well-tuned senses of humour.

Humor was a big part of my childhood. My family was full of comedians. We'd sit around the dinner table and try to one-up each other. It sometimes ended in tears, but usually in laughter.

I always was a funny guy, the class clown. I had a very funny dad and an extremely funny grandmother.

My wife is funny. And I dabble in it. So being funny is big around our house. But what's surprised me is my daughter can do an English accent. I don't know how she learned this.

David Boreanaz is pretty funny. He's probably the one that cracks everybody up the most on set. He can be very serious as well, but when he's silly he's pretty silly.

First of all, I find everything funny, which is upsetting to my children sometimes, and to people in my life, in general.

being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

Humor is the mistress of tears.

Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny.

What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give.

Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival.

I love people who make me laugh!

If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.

Let's focus on the funny. ... That's what I'm focused on... This is the gift God gave me. That's what I want to touch in people.

The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.

Next to sex my favorite thing is laughing - it's part of sex. Make me laugh - I'll love you.

I think laughter comes because things are hardly working.

As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.