Adam Sandler

Birthday: 9 September 1966, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Birth Name: Adam Richard Sandler

Height: 177 cm

Adam Richard Sandler was born September 9, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York, to Judith (Levine), a teacher at a nursery school, and Stanley Alan Sandler, an electrical engineer. He is of Russian Jewish desc ...Show More

I never had a speech from my father [saying], "This is what you must do or shouldn't do", but I just Show more I never had a speech from my father [saying], "This is what you must do or shouldn't do", but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out, you get there. He just made us feel comfortable and respectful to other families, my mother also... part of my father having a temper led to me developing a sense of humor to calm the old man down. That kind of sense of humor. Hide

[on extending his deal with Netflix by four films, becoming 8 total] I Love working with Netflix and Show more [on extending his deal with Netflix by four films, becoming 8 total] I Love working with Netflix and collaborating with them. I love how passionate they are about making movies and getting them out there for the whole world to see. They've made me feel like family and I can't thank them enough for their support. Hide

[after getting laser eye surgery] Now I realize how ugly I am. [after getting laser eye surgery] Now I realize how ugly I am.

I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, "One day, I'll get an Oscar and make a speech." That wasn't on m Show more I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, "One day, I'll get an Oscar and make a speech." That wasn't on my mind. I want to just do the best work I can do. Hide

[on how he became involved in Click (2006)] If it's something I feel I can do alright, I like being Show more [on how he became involved in Click (2006)] If it's something I feel I can do alright, I like being in those, and some that I think Rob Schneider and David Spade would be funnier at than me, I tell them to do it. I don't have any clue how we decide. There's this thing, this "Click", actually, one of my friends called me up, my partner told me about this idea that Steve Koren had. Steve Koren, by the way, the guy who wrote it with Mark O'Keefe, Steve Koren I've known since I was 22. He was a page at Saturday Night Live (1975). He would answer the phones and he'd give us phone messages and then he'd give you a message and he'd say, "Oh yeah. I wrote a joke." And he'd tell you the joke and you go, "Hey. Steve Koren's pretty funny" and then all of a sudden he's written Bruce Almighty (2003) and this thing and he's a giant writer and he's just a great guy. And anyway, they told me about the premise of the movie and asked if I was interested in that and I didn't even read the script, I just said, "Yeah. That's a huge idea, it sounds great." That's how I decided to do this script, just off three sentences about what the movie's about, I knew it could be awesome. Hide

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about wha Show more To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do. Hide

Adam Sandler's FILMOGRAPHY

All as Actor (235) as Creator (14)

Saturday Night Live - Season 24

Brooklyn Nine-Nine - Season 5

Jeopardy - Season 37

Little Nicky

Saturday Night Live - Season 5

The Graham Norton Show - Season 31

Conan - Season 11

The Wedding Singer

The Jonathan Ross Show - Season 14

The Jonathan Ross Show - Season 20