Henry Winkler quotes:

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.

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.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything.

Boston is large enough to learn your independence and small enough to make your own.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I don't understand what I do, I just know that it's great.

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.

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.

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

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

Wyoming is good, but Montana is like heaven on earth.

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

In school, I was an underachiever.