Top 35 Adam F. Goldberg Quotes

My rap name as a kid was Big Tasty.

I had ‘Breaking In’ at Fox, and that was a constant stopping and starting of getting canceled and picked up again.

I’m envious of ‘Glee’ – artists turned their libraries over for free because they knew it would lead to album sales.

‘The Wonder Years’ family was the kind where everything seemed to be bubbling and simmering with the occasional explosion. There were a lot of things that went unsaid in that family. In my family, everything is said – on the surface, you scream and yell about it, and three minutes later, you’re all friends.

If I called my kids a moron, I think it would traumatize them. I don’t think they even know what the word is.

I never saw my parents kiss.

When I was nine, I got my head stuck in a bucket trying to be Darth Vader.

I grew up obsessively collecting Queen T-shirts and concert posters and rare U.K. imports of their CDs.

My dad would always get into fights over parking spaces. He would do this all the time.

I was definitely more of a movie/cartoon guy than comics, but I really do like graphic novels – I don’t have the time to sit down and read Stephen King like I used to, so I find picking up ‘Saga’ every now and then and just diving back into it is a great way to stay reading.

If I don’t call my mom back, she’ll go on Twitter and say, ‘Adam hasn’t called me. I’m worried about him,’ and strangers will say, ‘You’re horrible. You go call your mom right now!’ It’s very complicated.

That’s what Flyers fans are all about. My favorite thing about Philly fans is booing their own team.

I think a lot of guys have their favorite shirt that they wear for years and years.

I’m terrible with titles.

Because my home life was nuts, I didn’t look to my parents for help. I looked to my teachers. They made me who I am. They took on a parental role. They’re like celebrities or heroes to me.

For me, ‘The Goldbergs’ was about surviving a crazy family – and believe me, the show is a sanitized version!

As a family, we all loved the Flyers. To me, rooting for the Flyers were how I bonded with my dad especially.

When you hire directors, you’re most concerned about whether or not someone from the outside will get the jokes.

Anything that I love, I love to the extreme. I’m obsessive. If it’s ‘Star Wars,’ if it’s ‘Transformers,’ if it’s the Flyers, I geek out.

I would make hockey movies: I would edit together Flyers games and do highlight reels of goals or fights, which I still have to this day.

I feel like, with any show, the creator should stick to it the first few years and get it off the ground.

My favorite thing to do as a kid was pretend I was in the opening credits of a sitcom. As the theme song would play, I’d look up at the imaginary camera and smile as my name would flash on the screen.

I am a Gobot junkie, and I pitched the Gobots movie as an animated movie a few years ago, and we’re trying to work something out now that the rights are cleared. But that’s my dream project, besides ‘The Goldbergs’ – doing a Gobots movie.

I ended up going to NYU for film school – close to Pennsylvania – but we talked about what if I went to UCLA or USC, and my mom’s whole world was caving in.

My dad felt old school.

When I was at the end of middle school and the beginning of high school, I fell in love with hockey in a serious way.

Prior to ‘The Goldbergs,’ I rarely got good reviews on anything I’ve done.

The way I’m raising my kids is so different than the way I was raised.

Copyright law is too confusing.

I love ‘AP Bio’ – I think it’s so funny – it’s just not the show I want to do.

I’ve never made a show that goes right on the air and is perfect. People don’t remember, but the original ‘Goldbergs’ pilot was poorly received, and I had to retool that for ABC, where it eventually became a hit.

My mom is not typical in any way.

I think the ’80s works for a TV show because it’s the last time the world was simple. It was before the Internet really changed everything and made the world really small.

For me, every show that’s about teachers – and there’s been a number of them – they’re like misfits who hate the kids and don’t want to be there and hate their jobs. For me, having crazy parents, my teachers were the sane people who raised me, and they liked being there.

On TV, teachers are comedically jaded. That’s not how I saw them.