I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It’s not like an action star.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‚mature‘ critics often are.

Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

I don’t think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

It’s a lot of fun to fight.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

‚Hope and change‘ has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

I met Will Smith twice. I didn’t talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him – he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognize myself.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

There is nothing permanent except change.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

Revolutions go not backward.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

Last year we said, ‚Things can’t go on like this‘, and they didn’t, they got worse.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star – I am an actor, too.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I’ve written, are stories driven by characters.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he’s terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he’s a terrific actor.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

I’ve always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he’s been in front of the camera. He doesn’t have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

When you’re singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It’s happening.

All things are only transitory.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

I’ll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.