Henry Winkler Quotes (26 Quotes)

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.

Producing is the hardest of the three because there is almost no closure. Every time you solve a problem, another one pops up. Directing is second, and acting is the most fun.

Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases.

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.

When Richie Cunningham drank too many beers, his parents sat him down and explained their concerns. If you live on this earth, you find out that we are all the same.

You see, I don't know how to ride a motorcycle, actually.

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

If you needed to be a doctor, if you wanted to be a doctor, I'd go to you. I'd be your very first patient.

To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.

In school, I was an underachiever.

If you make compelling television, they will come.

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

That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you heard Howard Cunningham talking to Marian about shopping? Too many.

No, because I kept signing the contract, and I figured that if I sign the contract, then just be here, be quiet and do the work.

Producing came about because I never wanted to be in one of those books, Where Are They Now?

He was my perfect alter ego. He was in control, and I never was. He was cool, and I was truly a nerd. I just played him out of affection.

I think this is the most important depository in the Middle West.

When you love what you do, then you're talking to one of the luckiest guys on the face of the earth.

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 wrote that.

Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

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

Mr. Cunningham would have gone over to his neighbors and had a family meeting with them and talked it out over cake. ... Happy Days

You can't go home again. I have no say in the matter. It's owned by Paramount, and they will do what they want to do. I've hung up the jacket.

Don't...Didn't you get the sense that you just trust this man