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I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I'm a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.
I just try to let myself really focus on the work that's ahead of me and what my job is and how I bring something to life.
That's the wonder of the internet. It's the power of numbers: get enough people to retweet something, someone might see it.
It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
I'm ready and open to meeting the person that hopefully I'll share my life with. It takes a long time to get to that place.
When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.
I've seen incredible acts of humanity in the military because people put themselves aside, and it's about the other person.
Being in a relationship is like being in A.A. My friends ask me, 'How's it going with that girl?' 'One day at a time, man.'
I think it's important that we remind everybody that America was never great in itself. It's been great in its aspirations.
My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire.
The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.
Happiness doesn't come from commercial success but from the quality of work that you give back to your immediate community.
Certainly, if it had been anything other than an HBO show I'd probably still be in Mexico now with a Mexican wife and kids.
I think dads let babies take more of a risk, maybe bounce off a bed more or jump off a couch or do more risk-taking things.
No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.
The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad.
Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.
I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.
C-3PO is flappable [in Star Wars]. [Kaytoo is] very unflappable compared to C-3PO, who is just flapping all over the place.
I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I don't think it comes that fast.
Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.
Look, every actor has a different way of preparing or creating a character and yeah, we all are from different backgrounds.
'I Am Number Four' is a great story about a guy who's trying to find his destiny and figure out who he is and his identity.
I don't think BitCoin has ever been anything but a legitimate enterprise. Currency is currency, it's used for good and ill.
Often you get wonderful singers who maybe aren't as strong as actors, or you get wonderful actors who can't sing very well.
I was an engineering student and spent a lot of time in the library, and no one applauds when you finish your calculations.
Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.
This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.
It is important to be financially savvy when you turn producer. As a director, you just need to have a good script in hand.
I was always Armie. There couldn't be a 90-year-old Armand and a 9-day-old one. And I heard enough jokes about baking soda.
I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem.
I say whatever I think and whatever is on my mind, and I just hope that it comes out good. I just try to have a lot of fun.
As marriage goes, I think most people sort of set being - you know getting married as the goal as opposed to being married.
People think of the military as being about guns and fighting wars, but it's really about service to country and community.
The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
I love the idea of doing totally different types of guys for different projects. I love that I get to do this. It's so fun.
When people come and see my show, I try to infuse into them that they can walk away feeling like their lives are a victory.
You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.
To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.
Hulk Hogan and I put 43,000 people in the Georgia Dome with three days' notice. I've got a fairly big following in Atlanta.
I think when Kevin Nash put himself on the booking committee and then gave me my first loss, that was beginning of the end.
Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.
Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.
We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them.
Independent films now, they want to give you $2 million to make it, 21 days to shoot it and they want 10 movie stars in it.
If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.