I’ve got a great sense of humor, and if I’m able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that’s hugely flattering.

I think that people are interested seeing me on the screen.

I’ve always had to conquer fear when I’m on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It’s absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I’m okay. It’s like I’m out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.

I laugh all the time – at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don’t laugh onstage because then it’s serious business.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

‚Rocky‘ and ‚Rocky III‘ were the best.

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

‚Best Man Holiday‘ was a very successful film.

I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

On ‚Think Like a Man,‘ they got the best out of me because they allowed me to bring my own cadences and opinions to the character that I was playing. I think we got the best of that particular character.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

Having other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get.

The secret to humor is surprise.

I want to show audiences I can act.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

A lot of times, you could play me just the laughs from my set, and I could tell you, from the laugh, what the joke was. Because they match.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

I love good film, whether it’s an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren’t necessarily eccentric ones but they’re the more specific ones.

I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it’s a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I’m in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don’t feel like you don’t know where I’ve been.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young.

I’d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn’t know who I was. And things just get really dark.

When you’re in comedy, people always come up and say, ‚Oh, it must be so hard.‘ It really isn’t hard unless you’re not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.

I’ve got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I’ve done it.

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.

I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes easy. It’s definitely a gift and for which I’m thankful.

We think it’s fun for our kids to have cameos and join us on set, but not to be actors. That’s not our goal for Brad and me at all. I think we would both prefer that they didn’t become actors.

I played Othello, but I didn’t sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn’t do me any good.

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

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

I’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‚Along Came Polly.‘

I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating – is this the exact right mix? I think that’s – to me it’s anti-comedy. It’s more about PC-nonsense.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

There’s nothing funnier than the human animal.

I’ll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.

You’re not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That’s not a place for me to joke around.

I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.

I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

My mother is from another time – the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that’s what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn’t know what I’m talking about. I know if I wasn’t her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going.

I’ve been thinking of humorous things since I was… I can’t remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in ‚Supergirl.‘ I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, ‚Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?‘

I’m standing behind a wall of jokes. You don’t know about my personal life, my girlfriends, or what I do when I’m not on the road. There’s this guy, this comedian, and this is how he thinks, but people really don’t know anything about me.