Adam Sandler Quotes

I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

I like - there's a better word for it, but I like the danger that a comic brings to a role. It has a feeling, even though everything's scripted and everything's planned what you're going to do. When I see Will Ferrell or Sacha Baron Cohen, there's a feeling that anything could happen.

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.

I'm like the master of ceremonies being funny, and then sometimes people you're with, girlfriends and stuff, are like, 'God I wish I had the person on stage to be with all the time.'

Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it's natural.

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

You don't need to be stable to be a stand-up comedian.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

The hardest thing is that I never do anything the same way twice, and when I'm on the air, I'm very unscripted, and I'm very comfortable in that role. So me being scripted is not a comfortable place for me.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

There's such a freewheeling nature to 'Second City,' and the greatest thing about 'Second City' was having a sophisticated audience night after night who appreciated what it was. They knew it wasn't all going to be great when you improvised, so they were very forgiving that way.

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.

My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.

My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

Music is very similar to comedy: It's all about texture, timing, context, vocabulary, performance. When someone's onstage doing a solo, essentially it's the same thing as what a comedian does. They're in the moment. They're listening.

I don't think we've ever known what the hell's going on when we do Tap shows. It's possible the audience are effectively getting to see more of the movie when we play. You know, they know the songs, so anything we do onstage, whether we're meaning to or not, is an extension of the film. Other than that, I wouldn't understand what's going on.

If I want to be a real comedian, I can't let you dictate my material, so I started creating more new material.

That's what comedy is like: You have to force yourself out in the world because you're always one experience away from new material.

The best thing about theatre is that every time we get onstage, the show is new.

Anytime you give a man in a wig a microphone, anything can happen.

When you do see me, you'll get the idea from when you see me that it's all off the top of my head. A lot of it is a beginning, middle and the end. But it's different every night. I have a lot of jokes in my back pocket I've said over the years.

I'm a chronic ad-libber. So whoever hires me, often to their chagrin, should know that I will be talking a bunch of smack.

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.