Henry Winkler Quotations

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

If you make compelling television, they will come.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

She is spectacular. Her energy is that of a 28-year-old. Her spirit is that of a 28-year-old.

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

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.

We have some marvelous archives. We have a very very good nineteenth century collection of books.

We've raised money all over the place. We've almost reached our goal.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. I wrote that.

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

You must stay home. It will change your life,

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.

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.

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.

In school, I was an underachiever.

It is not easy to compete when you have LD, but it is possible.

Making a show is also economics. Because the irony is, or the shame of it is, you cannot create a show instantaneously. It needs to be massaged. You need to see who is relating to who. How is it working with the audience? You need to give it a chance for the audience to find it, because there are so many outlets. And the audience doesn't know where to go.

Music takes us where words cannot.

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.

The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and its sold out for all performances.

Ten out of ten people die, so don't take life too seriously.

You cannot assume that somebody can define you. You cannot assume that the other person is right. No matter how they say it to you, no matter with how much force they say, ‘Oh my god, you’ll never make it; oh my god, you’re not bright; you could never do this’—that’s one person. I can’t tell you how many people told me I would never be an actor.

I truly believe fishing is like a washing machine for your brain

To have people like my work, even if it's my old work, I can't ask for nothing nicer than that.

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.

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.

How you learn has nothing to do with how brilliant you are.

Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything.