Adam Sandler Thinks He’d Still Be Married to Wife Jackie Sandler Even If He Wasn’t Famous

Adam Sandler thinks he and his wife, Jackie Sandler, were always meant to be.

While Adam, 59, attended the Palm Springs International Film Festival’s gala on Saturday, January 3, he spoke about what his life could’ve been like if he worked for his dad as an electrical engineer — rather than becoming an actor. (At the event, Adam accepted the Chairman’s Award while being recognized for his work in Jay Kelly.)

“I sometimes think about it, [if] I didn’t click that year and I did go work for my dad, what my life would be right now,” Adam said in his speech, per People. “First off, I’m thinking I’d probably still be married to my wife, Jackie. That’s destiny. Nothing stops that.”

“But we definitely [would] have a different house. Probably, like, 10 less bathrooms and [fewer] statues of me,” he quipped.

Adam and Jackie met on the set of 1999’s Big Daddy, dating shortly thereafter. He popped the question in 2002.

“I played basketball that afternoon, trying to calm down, and then I was driving. I was saying stuff out loud and trying to, you know, make sure I hit all of the right things so she would remember nice stuff, and I did all right,” he said on a June 2002 appearance on Good Morning America at the time. “She called her grandmother right after and her mother, and they all said, ‘Yeah, I heard the applause over the phone.’”

Adam and Jackie tied the knot in 2003. The couple went on to welcome daughters Sadie and Sunny in 2016 and 2018, respectively.

More than two decades after his marriage to Jackie, Adam reflected on the pair’s close bond.

“We’re very close. We like to talk, like to laugh, like to have fun, and like to think about things and take care of our kids,” Adam told People in November 2025. “I’m just more thankful than I’ve ever been.”

He continued, “Happy I got to do this life, happy [about] all the people who’ve been with me during all this stuff, and helped me out, and [it’s] just been a phenomenal time. My whole family’s always been great to me. My wife and I talk about stuff, and what to do, and what to do next, and it’s just been a very cool life.”

Later that year, Adam admitted that he says “so many things” about his wife and kids that “aren’t true” — and knows how to make it up to them.

“I make s*** up and make it goofy, so at the end of the show, I like to remind the audience that none of it is true and I love my wife,” Adam explained in Netflix’s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman and Adam Sandler in December 2025. “I think during ‘[the show] while I’m saying [things about her] she must go, ‘Let’s move on.’”

Adam went on to serenade his wife during a standup routine at the end of the special.

“Now we don’t need a big house, we don’t need any money, all we need is you and me and Sadie and Sunny,” he sang. “I got everything I need growing old with you.”