I have no patience with dinosaurs.
Adam West
My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.
Adam West
I have become convinced that everything that is classy doesn’t go away.
Adam West
Anything that triggers good memories can’t be all bad.
Adam West
One of the most gratifying, rewarding things is when people come up, and they tell you how the show influenced their lives in a very positive way. When I do these things like Comic Con, I get people who are lawyers, judges, plumbers, carpenters, and entire families, and it’s mostly for ‘Batman.’ But now, amazingly, it’s also for ‘Family Guy.’
Adam West
If you hang around long enough, they think you’re good. It’s either my tenacity or stupidity – I’m not sure which.
Adam West
The wonderful thing with some of the things I’ve done – most of them, really – is to be trusted. To be able to do your thing, to work on it, hone it into my gem of creativity!
Adam West
When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.
Adam West
Life is full of ironies and absurdities.
Adam West
In the late ’60s, there were the the three B’s: The Beatles, Batman, and Bond.
Adam West
Over the years, I’ve learned that if you can just hang in there and, regardless of what’s presented to you, take it as a challenge and try to bring in something fresh, then it works.
Adam West
I love to do voiceover because, for me, if you know what you’re doing, it’s simple. No makeup, no costuming, none of the baloney. None of the egos – you don’t have to deal with all that crap. I love voiceovers.
Adam West
When I got to Hollywood, there wasn’t even a Boulevard. I’m that old. It was just a little dirt trail. I’m kidding.
Adam West
Isn’t it fun to be nuts? Isn’t it fun to be crazy?
Adam West
To be an icon… I guess that’s a privilege.
Adam West
When you go to the Sistine Chapel with Sophia Loren, it can be quite some time before your thoughts turn to the ceiling.
Adam West
Favorite Bat-gadget was probably the Batboat, because it was fun to get out on the ocean and run that thing around at high speed.
Adam West
People love Batman, and I would be stupid, I would be a fool if I didn’t love Batman.
Adam West
I was a maverick. I went to five different colleges looking for I don’t know quite what.
Adam West
Crummy pictures, live appearances, circuses, avant garde theater, dinner theater. I’ve done it all. I’ve been shot out of cannons. I know what the people want. I’m out there with the people.
Adam West
My grandfather and my father had wheat ranches, so we had quite a few trucks around and a lot of mules. Talk about horsepower – we had mule power.
Adam West
I used to spend hours just sitting in an old wreck of a car with a stickshift; I’d just sit there and shift.
Adam West
When I was getting started, I was so busy just fighting my way through, and I was under contract at Warner Brothers. I did 40 hours of color television with the late Robert Taylor as a young cop.
Adam West
Some nights, I wear my cape, and I go out on the pier. It is foggy… I look for… Riddler.
Adam West
There was a time when ‘Batman’ really kept me from getting some pretty good roles, and I was asked to do what I figured were important features. However, Batman was there, and very few people would take a chance on me walking onto the screen. And they’d be taking people away from the story.
Adam West
I’ve always been able to work. I think it’s an actor’s obligation to keep working if you can.
Adam West
When ‘Family Guy’ came along, it was like a gift, and it expanded my fan base.
Adam West
You can’t play Batman in a serious, square-jawed, straight-ahead way without giving the audience the sense that there’s something behind that mask waiting to get out, that he’s a little crazed; he’s strange.
Adam West
‘Batman’ was a colorful and wild ride.
Adam West
If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we’ll stand or fall on whatever we did.
Adam West
I’ve always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.
Adam West
How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It’s been very rewarding. I’m not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I’m getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.
Adam West
The Batmobile wasn’t a stickshift, and it was a challenge to drive, believe me.
Adam West
I am a simple man, though my wife says I am complicated. I’ll trust her on that one.
Adam West
I am a private person. I don’t need a lot of company. And I find it really, really difficult to talk about myself.
Adam West
You have no idea the people I meet when I do these Comic-Cons. When I go sign autographs and say hello to people, I see everything!
Adam West
Look at ‘Batman’ – that was theater of the absurd, as is ‘Family Guy.’
Adam West
It’s a wonderful thing to be able to make fun of yourself and to do it in a way that sort of preserves your dignity but, at the same time, lets you play the theater of the absurd.
Adam West
I have the curse of thinking funny!
Adam West
I think our Batman had to be fun, light-hearted, funny, tongue-in-cheek… and I think that made kind of an homage to those earlier comic books, where Batman always had a quip or something.
Adam West
I like Christian Bale. I’ve heard he’s a big fan of mine, but I certainly reciprocate. I think he’s really very good.
Adam West
The new ‘Dark Knight’ movies, they’re wonderful in their own way.
Adam West
I think I’ve said I’m the luckiest actor in the world. I mean that.
Adam West
I’ve been able to reinvent myself and to keep an audience going at whatever age. This is terrific. I mean, how many actors get that chance?
Adam West
Oh, it’s fun to be an icon!
Adam West
The word that scares the hell out of me is ‘frail.’ I don’t want to be frail.
Adam West
Not to be able to move around or do things without thinking – that’s tough. I may end up that way, but if I do, I hope to hell my intellect will take over, and I’ll find some kind of joy and a way to contribute.
Adam West
Typecasting is really rampant in Hollywood, and because I played a costumed character and did it successfully, it was a real stigma.
Adam West
There were definitely times when I regretted ever being Batman.
Adam West
All I know is that my fans have been really wonderful and affectionate.
Adam West
I’m very lucky. I do voiceovers, ‘Family Guy,’ on and on, and quite frankly, I’m one of the luckiest actors in the world. I was able to create a character who became iconic.
Adam West
Playing Batman is an actor’s challenge. First, it’s different; then, you have to reach a multi-level audience. The kids take it straight, but for adults, we have to project it further.
Adam West