Top 100 Winkler's Quotes
#1. It's strange, because I remember the biggest point of my childhood was one Halloween when I was trick or treating and ended up at Henry Winkler's house and he answered the door. So I got to meet The Fonz. That was cool.
Brian Austin Green
#2. staff of U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet and submitted his narrative in 2001. With the ongoing war in Iraq, I felt it appropriate that a broader audience have access to Commander Winkler's work.
David F. Winkler
#3. I'm collector of stuff that people make with their brain. I keep them in little jars and I take them out and play with them sometimes too. The stuff, not the people.
Frances Winkler
#4. It is not easy to compete when you have LD, but it is possible.
Henry Winkler
#6. This is certainly not to excuse the violence that exists on TV and films and on the Internet. But the truth is that wherever you go in Europe, there are American films and TV shows that are just as popular as at home. And you don't have that sense of violence in any other place other than America.
Irwin Winkler
#7. When studios start telling me why a particular film project won't work, I remember 'Rocky.' I remember that the biggest success Bob Chartoff and I have had was a film nobody wanted to make.
Irwin Winkler
#8. When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven't stopped thanking him since.
Marlee Matlin
#9. 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.
Henry Winkler
#11. I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.
Irwin Winkler
#12. Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.
Irwin Winkler
#13. I don't mean like balls-in-your-face or gifts of pornography and butt plugs romantic, just cute, over-the-pants, PG-13 movie stuff.
Frances Winkler
#14. Somebody asked me if I could go back and start again with a different brain, would I. Years ago I thought yes, I would, and now I know I wouldn't. Because whatever challenges I had in school, I guess they forced me to where I am today. So I now see them as an asset.
Henry Winkler
#16. Ten out of ten people die, so don't take life too seriously.
Henry Winkler
#17. I don't mind talking about my dad because he's such a good dude.
Max Winkler
#18. Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
Irwin Winkler
#19. If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.
Max Winkler
#20. There once was a man from Des Moines
Whose wife was always annoyed
He stepped in the kitchen
She started her bitchin'
Now that fucking cunt is dead.
Frances Winkler
#21. I love my dad so much. I don't have that cool thing where I have dad issues.
Max Winkler
#22. Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.
Irwin Winkler
#23. Once you are far enough into your work, it can provide endless fascination. You are trying to solve a huge puzzle: to create an entire intricate world that works in the end, like the mechanism of an old clock.
Susan Winkler
#24. Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.
Irwin Winkler
#25. You don't fight fair against the devil, now do you?
Meg Winkler
#26. I'm sort of a delusional in the sense of, I was just gonna graduate from school and just, like, prance onto a film set and have a movie crew waiting for me to make my '8½' or something, which is completely insane.
Max Winkler
#27. It is the parent's job to see how their child learns and to make sure that the children's self confidence is buoyed at all times, or they will plummet like a stone.
Henry Winkler
#28. Not every child learns the same way. I could not learn through my eyes. Reading was impossible. Math, to compute it in my mind, was impossible. I learned everything through listening.
Henry Winkler
#29. Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.
Irwin Winkler
#30. Johnny Knoxville has such an incredible humanity to him when you meet him. He's so warm and so funny, and he can sort of get into trouble and you sort of forgive him immediately.
Max Winkler
#31. I've always been sort of influenced by my male relationships and that period of my life when you start to cringe and be like, 'I can't believe I wore this or that.'
Max Winkler
#32. Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.
Irwin Winkler
#33. Does it matter? In memory, in story, in the end, we can remake our lives any way we need. To be surprised, truly and utterly surprised by what came into your life - this, Winkler was learning, was the true gift.
Anthony Doerr
#34. 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.
Henry Winkler
#35. It was surreal to think the Queen of England not only knew who I was but thought enough of what I do to give me an award.
Henry Winkler
#36. I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.
Irwin Winkler
#37. These were the beginnings of a new existence; Winkler could feel it gestating.
Anthony Doerr
#38. You cannot represent cool. You've got to be cool. You've got to be authentic. I think, after all these years, that is how I define cool. It is being authentic. That is powerful.
Henry Winkler
#39. What can I say? I'm like a playground water fountain, I live to wet people's pants.
Frances Winkler
#40. 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.
Henry Winkler
#41. I don't read reviews, good or bad, just for my own sanity.
Max Winkler
#42. I feel totally lucky and happy. I think a lot of young directors feel this way but you sort of, like, have a biological clock that starts ticking and you like feel like you aren't anything until you direct a movie and you need to find yourself and this is how you do it.
Max Winkler
#43. Winkler-Koch benefited directly from this project, which was designed to help enable the fuel policy of the Third Reich.
Jane Mayer
#44. It seems like a really fun way to make a living, but I'm truly terrible at acting.
Max Winkler
#45. How we learn has nothing to do with how brilliant we are.
Henry Winkler
#46. If you make compelling television, they will come.
Henry Winkler
#47. When I'm on a set, and I'm in between a scene or on a plane waiting, I read Twitter and I love it.
Henry Winkler
#48. When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
Irwin Winkler
#49. The world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on it are the elements.
Clemens Winkler
#50. 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.
Henry Winkler
#51. For the good producer, raising capital is about the last thing to worry about. If you're good, the money comes very easily.
Irwin Winkler
#52. Usually when you have a sequel, the character always stays the same and that's true basically of 'Rocky III,' 'IV' and 'V.' He didn't really change.
Irwin Winkler
#53. You see, I don't know how to ride a motorcycle, actually.
Henry Winkler
#54. More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.
Irwin Winkler
#55. 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.
Henry Winkler
#56. I keep saying this, but the most important part of directing is casting, and the rest of it is pretty easy.
Max Winkler
#57. 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.
Henry Winkler
#58. Love is like a picnic without ants, pleasant for a while, but sooner or later something's definitely getting squashed.
Frances Winkler
#59. We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.
Irwin Winkler
#60. The secret is: a catapult is a joy in it self ... freude an sich ... it doesn't need a reason, it IS the reason.
Frances Winkler
#61. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything.
Henry Winkler
#62. If you look at successful studios, they're the ones with stabilized management.
Irwin Winkler
#63. When I was growing up, I was told I was stupid and that I would never achieve. I suffered from dyslexia, and in those days it wasn't recognised.
Henry Winkler
#64. As a producer, the most important call you can get is on Saturday morning, when the Friday-night grosses come in. As a director, you want your film to be successful. But your outlook is a bit different. You become very conscious of the reviews.
Irwin Winkler
#65. Wes Craven is a wonderful friend, and we had a really good time together.
Henry Winkler
#66. I will tell you one thing, I've slept with more books than I have people. And THAT has made all the difference.
Frances Winkler
#67. I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.
Irwin Winkler
#68. I could go around poking people in the eye with a sharp stick to keep them on their toes, but I'd probably be arrested sooner or later. Poetry is better. More lawful. Less bloody.
Frances Winkler
#69. I truly believe fishing is like a washing machine for your brain
Henry Winkler
#70. I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.
Irwin Winkler
#71. I figure we go through things that make us stronger, but we also go through things that just simply piss us off.
Meg Winkler
#72. The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and its sold out for all performances.
Henry Winkler
#73. If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with.
Irwin Winkler
#74. 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.
Henry Winkler
#75. My first girlfriend broke up with me on a yellow legal pad. After she picked me up from the airport one day, she took out a letter that her therapist wrote, and she read it to me. She and her therapists wrote a letter breaking up with me together.
Max Winkler
#76. Producing came about because I never wanted to be in one of those books, Where Are They Now?
Henry Winkler
#77. I start with the music before I start writing the movie. It's such an important part for me, emotionally, to set up the tone for the movie.
Max Winkler
#78. I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.
Irwin Winkler
#79. You think you know yourself so well, but what you end up knowing is the simple things.
Mark Winkler
#80. 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.
Henry Winkler
#81. As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.
Henry Winkler
#82. No one wants to hear from the producer. He's the guy by the pool with a cigar in his mouth and a couple of lovelies on his arm. But when you're a director, they want to hear what you have to say about everything - the war, the world.
Irwin Winkler
#83. They would not get closer to the truth that night. They watched a period of hockey in silence. Winkler insisted on doing the dishes. Herman insisted on driving him to the bus stop.
Anthony Doerr
#84. Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
Irwin Winkler
#85. The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
Irwin Winkler
#86. I acted in a couple friends's short films and thought I was gonna be really good and mysterious and sexy. And I was just terrible and self-aware.
Max Winkler
#87. As we sit here and idly chat, there are woman, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and we are making money from that.
Henry Winkler
#88. When I was 10 or 11, I was on this TV series called 'Dead Man's Gun' and Henry Winkler was a guest star. He hung out with me and my brother the whole time. We had no idea who he was. Our parents were star struck.
Reece Thompson
#89. To have people like my work, even if it's my old work, I can't ask for nothing nicer than that.
Henry Winkler
#90. When you love what you do, then you're talking to one of the luckiest guys on the face of the earth.
Henry Winkler
#91. I feel like there's a witch hunt by some film sites and people that immediately disregard something if it shows any sort of influence.
Max Winkler
#92. I think Woody Allen calls it 'anxiety of influence.' When you're in your formative years and you watch a movie that makes you want to make movies ... For Wes Anderson, it's Truffaut. I'm sure for P.T. Anderson it was Scorsese and Jonathan Demme.
Max Winkler
#93. Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow.
Henry Winkler
#94. A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.
Henry Winkler
#95. If I self-loathe with any more passion, I will spontaneously combust.
Frances Winkler
#96. I despise writing in general, but yeah, I love writing the stuff that I direct.
Max Winkler
#97. The thing that's strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars.
Irwin Winkler
#98. 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.
Henry Winkler
#99. a world where chocolate is entirely rare - or entirely mediocre - is a dystopia the likes of which we can scarcely conceive ["An Emotional History Of Chocolate," The Millions, January 5, 2015].
Elizabeth Winkler
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