Born on April 2nd

"Negative attention was better than no attention."

"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."

"Convincing Robert Englund to come out of retirement to play Freddy Krueger one last time is a true bucket-list moment for me as a writer. I've been a longtime obsessive fan, collecting Freddy artwork and action figures."

"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."

"All of my family members have had moments where they're upset with me because I'll cavalierly write a story just to be funny."

"I never did video dating."

"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."

"I love 'AP Bio' - I think it's so funny - it's just not the show I want to do."

"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."

"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."

"For me, 'The Goldbergs' was about surviving a crazy family - and believe me, the show is a sanitized version!"

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

"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."

"Prior to 'The Goldbergs,' I rarely got good reviews on anything I've done."

"Some of my movies hold the bottom rankings on Rotten Tomatoes."

"Singing karaoke is my worst nightmare. But in the car, I rock out to anything Bon Jovi or Beastie Boys."

"Being from Philadelphia, 'Parents Just Don't Understand' was a big deal - I have audio of my brother and me singing that song."

"I'm envious of 'Glee' - artists turned their libraries over for free because they knew it would lead to album sales."

"It's very complicated to literally put your family on TV."

"I never saw my parents kiss."

"'Afterlife With Archie' - they're doing a great job."

"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."

"I've been with my wife since I was 16."

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

"My mom was a shopaholic. She can literally never wear the same thing twice. That's fine with me."

"One of my favorite things was I got to work with Avi Arad on a movie for Sony, and we don't realize this, but he's the reason toys were sold off of cartoons, more or less. He created the Gobots!"

"In our house, there was a lot of yelling. It was everyone walking in on each other and very few boundaries."

"Queen is my all-time favorite band in history. I was an obsessive growing up after I discovered them at 10 at summer camp."