Adam Sandler’s Best Quotes About Fatherhood While Raising Daughters

Adam Sandler is easily a favorite when it comes to laughs, but when it comes to fatherhood, the actor takes his role quite seriously.

Sandler shares daughters Sadie Madison And Sunny Madeline with wife Jackie Sandler (née Titone), whom he met on the 1999 set Big daddy. Adam popped the question in 2002 and the couple married a year later.

The pair expanded their family three years later when they welcomed Sadie. Sunny was born in 2008.

Since becoming a dad, Adam hasn’t shied away from sharing his experiences, including how fatherhood has changed him in his new and relatable perspective on a wild night as a dad. He has also said that they aim to follow in his footsteps – and they have already started to do so.

Sadie and Sunny starred in projects like 2023 You’re so not invited to my Bat Mitzvah, where they played Adam’s daughters on screen, and performed in 2010 Adults and 2020 Hubie Halloween. They recently played children’s roles (Sadie as Jayda and Sunny as Summer) in Netflix Lionwhere Adam played the title character, a lizard trying to escape his life as a classroom pet.

Adam comes along to watch Sadie and Sunny grow up. Keep scrolling for some of Adam’s most unforgettable quotes about fatherhood over the years:

2004

Before welcoming Sunny and Sadie, Adam dreamed of one day becoming a father. “I only recently started trying and doing my best,” he said news reporter Paul Fischer before the 2004 release Spangels. “It feels good to try, but playing a dad makes me a little older. I now see that I take it more seriously and I want that lifestyle and I also want children.”

July 2007

During an interview with Jay LenoAdam said his outlook on life changed after he welcomed Sadie. “I always wanted to live, now I want to live even more,” he noted. “My pursuit of life is that I just behaved differently now.”

He continued, “I want to be there for my child when my child is older. When I have shots of Southern Comfort and such, I always take a multivitamin right after. I recently had fifteen multivitamins and the next morning it was the healthiest crap I’ve ever taken in my life.

June 2010

As a celebrity dad, it can be tempting to give your children what you never had growing up. But Adam is determined to keep his daughters grounded. He told the Boston Herald, “The idea of ​​my children being spoiled, I go to sleep thinking about it and I wake up thinking about it. I’m trying to do the right thing. With the amount of money I have, it is difficult to raise children the way I was raised, as the son of an electrician.”

True to form, he continued with a joke, “I took the west and north wings of those guys’ house. So they are not allowed in there.”

June 2014

“My children give me the most joy, but there are life adjustments. I don’t go out with anyone after 9:30 at night,” Adam said KnowMore.tv. “I eat at six or seven o’clock. If someone makes me stay out until half past ten at night, I’m angry the whole next day because I’m exhausted.”

Adam shared a sweet story, adding: “This is wild. Last night my wife and I fell asleep at eight o’clock and we said, ‘No, we will not give in to this sleep. Maybe we should watch a movie after the kids fall asleep.’ Well, the kids didn’t fall. I’m in a room and I say, “Twenty minutes until they fall asleep.” Before I know it, I walk out of the room and my wife and my other daughter are curled up and sleeping. I’m up half the night with the other one. Welcome to parenthood.”

June 2014

“Honestly, I’m like Santa Claus at school,” Adam said KnowMore.tv. “The children love me and flock around me. It doesn’t make me cool. I’m just a man with a lot of children around him.”

He joked that he also loads them with In-N-Out burgers, “With extra ketchup.”

April 2017

Although they have appeared in a handful of films with their father, Sadie and Sunny don’t consider watching his family-friendly films to be a fun time.

He known person they “beg” to see his R-rated films, but when it comes to PG-13, “Every time, after about 20 minutes, I see them drop out.” Then I hear them, they’re nervous to say, but: ‘Can we watch something else?’

They also want an inside joke of fans shouting lines from movies like Big daddy And Happy Gilmore against him on the street.

“Those people are always shouting things at you on the street and I don’t know what they’re talking about,” Adam told him. Still, he gushed, “I love them more than anything.”

November 2023

Adam said during an appearance that his daughters made their mark in Hollywood The Jennifer Hudson Show, saying, “They both like it, they both talk about it.”

Adam added: “I just want them to be happy and this is the case [the] kind of things they talk about. My eldest daughter wants to go to university for it and they are both very good. They both think about it a lot and work hard on it, so we’ll see what happens.”

Sadie, Sunny and Jackie also appeared alongside Adam Adults, adults 2 And Pixels.

February 2024

Even though Sadie and Sunny lent their voices Lion, they are still typical teenage daughters. “They still don’t talk to you. They’re going to do their thing,” he says said at the premiere of his film Spaceman.

He continued, “They do their best, and then they go about their lives. I stand to the side and say, ‘I love you.’ I often say ‘I love you’ to them.”