Quotes by Adam F. Goldberg - Page 2

I wasn't a sweet kid. I was an instigator and provoked everyone with my goofy hyena cackle, loving every minute of the drama I could create.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Drama
Goofy
Provoked
Hyena
Minute
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'Breaking In' is a very different office comedy and a caper comedy. Aside from 'Chuck,' there is no half-hour comedy that does stuff like that.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Chuck
Aside
Breaking
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I was so obsessed with 'The Princess Bride.' I loved it so much that I even have a re-enactment I did of a radio play of the iocane powder scene.
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Powder
Princess
Radio
Scene
Bride
Loved
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For me, I went to NYU, and at that point, it was 1995, and everyone wanted to be Tarantino. I was writing these stupid comedies, and I felt lost.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Nyu
Stupid
Tarantino
Comedies
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I always say that even though my dad was alive during Woodstock, he was just not invited. He just seemed like he was from a different generation.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Invited
Woodstock
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Do I think technology is bad? No. I think it's wonderful that the world is so connected now. But I think, as a result, childhood ends a little earlier.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Childhood
Connected
Earlier
Result
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I ended up going to NYU for film school - close to Pennsylvania - but we talked about what if I went to UCLA or USC, and my mom's whole world was caving in.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Mom
Film
Film School
Nyu
Pennsylvania
School
Ucla
Usc
What If
Whole
Close
Ended
Talked
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I was in college starting in '95, and 'Rent' was the only show I could see - because if you waited in line and camped out, you could try to get the lottery tickets.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Lottery
Tickets
Rent
Waited
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I have many of the Rock Lords; Magmar, I'm obsessed with. That's a sign of how versatile the Rock Lords were, that they could come out with toys that turned into rocks.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Rocks
Toys
Versatile
Lords
Sign
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My mom was always trying to figure out ways to make Hanukkah exciting and compete with our neighbors the Kremps, who always had these amazing blow-out Christmas parties.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Compete
Neighbors
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I think the '80s works for a TV show because it's the last time the world was simple. It was before the Internet really changed everything and made the world really small.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Changed
Last Time
Time World Simple
Tv Show
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I followed Evan's career through the '90s and went to many Lemonheads concerts in N.Y.C. Since he was my best friend's family, he always felt like my family in a weird way.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Concerts
Best Family Always
Followed
Weird Way
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I remember running down the hallway screaming 'We're Not Gonna Take It.' It was really one of those childhood anthems that really stirred you up and made you want to rebel.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Hallway
Screaming
Stirred
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My brother Barry was into all sports, and so was my late father. For me, hockey was the one sport I loved and played. I didn't really pay much attention to the other sports.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Sports
Attention
Brother
Father
Hockey
Late
Pay
Sports Me Father
Played
Barry
Loved
Sport
Sports Father Me
Much Attention
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Because my home life was nuts, I didn't look to my parents for help. I looked to my teachers. They made me who I am. They took on a parental role. They're like celebrities or heroes to me.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Home Life
Nuts
Parental
Heroes
Life Home I Am
Teachers
Life Home Look
Celebrities
Looked
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One of my favorite things was I got to work with Avi Arad on a movie for Sony, and we don't realize this, but he's the reason toys were sold off of cartoons, more or less. He created the Gobots!
Adam F. Goldberg /
Favorite Things
More Or Less
Sold
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My favorite thing to do as a kid was pretend I was in the opening credits of a sitcom. As the theme song would play, I'd look up at the imaginary camera and smile as my name would flash on the screen.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Flash
Imaginary
Opening
Sitcom
Song
Theme
Camera
Favorite
Credits
Pretend
Favorite Thing
Screen
Theme Song
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If I don't call my mom back, she'll go on Twitter and say, 'Adam hasn't called me. I'm worried about him,' and strangers will say, 'You're horrible. You go call your mom right now!' It's very complicated.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Adam
Complicated
Horrible
Worried
Mom Your Me
Mom Me Will
Strangers
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I've never made a show that goes right on the air and is perfect. People don't remember, but the original 'Goldbergs' pilot was poorly received, and I had to retool that for ABC, where it eventually became a hit.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Air
Perfect
Remember
Abc
Remember People Never
Hit
Became
Original
Goes
Perfect People
Pilot
Poorly
Received
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Convincing Robert Englund to come out of retirement to play Freddy Krueger one last time is a true bucket-list moment for me as a writer. I've been a longtime obsessive fan, collecting Freddy artwork and action figures.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Artwork
Collecting
Convincing
Figures
Last Time
Obsessive
Retirement
Time Moment Me
Freddy
Longtime
Robert
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I am a Gobot junkie, and I pitched the Gobots movie as an animated movie a few years ago, and we're trying to work something out now that the rights are cleared. But that's my dream project, besides 'The Goldbergs' - doing a Gobots movie.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Animated
Work I Am Doing
Besides
Cleared
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For me, every show that's about teachers - and there's been a number of them - they're like misfits who hate the kids and don't want to be there and hate their jobs. For me, having crazy parents, my teachers were the sane people who raised me, and they liked being there.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Being There
Misfits
Raised
Sane
Teachers
Liked
Sane People
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I was definitely more of a movie/cartoon guy than comics, but I really do like graphic novels - I don't have the time to sit down and read Stephen King like I used to, so I find picking up 'Saga' every now and then and just diving back into it is a great way to stay reading.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Diving
Graphic Novels
Now And Then
Saga
Picking
Stephen King
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'The Wonder Years' family was the kind where everything seemed to be bubbling and simmering with the occasional explosion. There were a lot of things that went unsaid in that family. In my family, everything is said - on the surface, you scream and yell about it, and three minutes later, you're all friends.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Minutes
Occasional
Scream
Unsaid
Wonder
Bubbling
Explosion
Seemed
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The only interaction I had with my brothers is like negative attention where I'd basically egg them on into beating me up - which was delightful! Otherwise, it was me with a video camera jumping on a bed pretending to be the Ultimate Warrior or setting up my robots making a Transformers movie because I was a lonely kid.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Delightful
Jumping
Lonely
Robots
Setting
Beating
Egg
Transformers
Video Camera
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There was kind of a no-nonsense parenting style that my parents had that was true of the time. Everything now... there are books, and there are websites, and there are blogs, and you're reading, and there's research. We're such an interconnected world now, and half the stuff they did was pretty terrible, but we somehow turned out fine.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Parenting
Blogs
Fine
Half
Interconnected
Reading
Research
Stuff
Terrible
Pretty
Books
Parents
Somehow
Turned
Websites
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In high school, I was so obsessed with the movie that I started an actual 'Highlander' club with my two best friends, Mike Levy and David Sirota. What began as a few geeks hitting each other with swords we made in woodshop soon became a school-wide game with 20 people playing. It became so disruptive that the administration had to shut it down.
Adam F. Goldberg /
Disruptive
Hitting
Mike
Best Game People
Geeks
Shut
Swords
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