Henry Winkler

“I live by two words: tenacity and gratitude.”

“Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow.”

“If you make compelling television, they will come.”

“I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck.”

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”

“I loved doing commercials when I did commercials. I made a living. I worked in front of a camera. I could do plays for free.”

“I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can't vote.”

“How we learn has nothing to do with how brilliant we are.”

“When I was a freshman at Yale, one teacher brought me up after class and said, 'You're trying to undermine my class.' And I thought to myself, 'Oh my God, I'm going to be kicked out of school on the first week.' Not only do I not have a sense of self, I don't even know what she's talking about. I don't even know how to undermine anything.”

“I was allergic to school. I was completely befuddled by school. I was trying so hard, but I couldn't succeed. I took geometry for four years, the same course over and over again, and I did not graduate with my senior class. I finally passed geometry after doing summer school, and eventually, I graduated.”

“מה שאתה יודע בראש שלך מינימלי בהשוואה למה שאתה יודע על פי האינסטינקטים שלך, שתמיד יגידו מה הכי טוב. אתה תתאהב באדם הנכון ותעבוד במקום הנכון ומהצד השני, כשנורות האזהרה שלי התחילו לפעול, תמיד למדתי ללכת משם ולעולם לא להתחרט.”

“תוכנית טלוויזיה צריכה שיטפחו אותה. אי אפשר לצפות ללהיט מיידי, הקהל צריך למצוא אותך. יש כל כך הרבה ערוצים באוויר.”

“חלמתי להיות שחקן מאז שהייתי בן שבע והגשמתי חלומות גדולים. אני מאוד אוהב את העבודה שלי וכל בוקר אני הולך לעבודה עם חיוך על הפנים. למרות שהחיוך לפעמים קצת עייף, בגלל השעות המוקדמות שמתחילים צילומים, אני נהנה מכל רגע.”

“It feels blessed to me. Because I go to comic cons, and people come up and they say, 'You're the reason I ride a motorcycle. You're the reason I became a mechanic.' And there are people who love 'Scream' and 'The Waterboy,' 'Royal Pains,' 'Parks & Rec,' 'Arrested Development.' And now 'Barry.' And then there are kids who only know me as an author.”

“I taught four classes in my life. They were a master class at Northwestern and three classes at Emerson when I was making 'Here Comes the Boom' in Boston.”

“All children know when something is wrong and they can't understand something - they never need someone to tell them they're stupid. They need help in solving the problem.”

“Wes Craven is a wonderful friend, and we had a really good time together.”

“It was a very difficult time, 1984. 'Happy Days' ended. I said, 'There's no way I can be a producer.' My attorney said, 'You'll learn.' The first thing we sold was the 'MacGyver' television series. We shot 139 episodes between 1985 and 1992.”

“The arts help complete a person. I truly believe that.”

“My Aunt Erna was smuggled out of Nazi Germany in 1939, alive, in a coffin with a spider plant at her feet. When I moved to Los Angeles from New York City in 1974 for 'Happy Days,' I took a cutting with me.”