Top 50 Adam West Quotes

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.

I don’t paint butter dishes, doilies, or hummingbirds in my garden. It’s more raw, I suppose. But it always creates a reaction.

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!

Any incarnation of ‘Batman’ I am delighted to do.

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.

Anything with ‘Family Guy’ is great.

I’ve always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.

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.

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.

I’ve hung on for a long time in this business and had some success, and I think it’s keeping an open mind and being curious and having a sense of humor about oneself that’s important.

I’m like Madonna: I keep reinventing myself.

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.

Anything that triggers good memories can’t be all bad.

Look at ‘Batman’ – that was theater of the absurd, as is ‘Family Guy.’

When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.

Typecasting is really rampant in Hollywood, and because I played a costumed character and did it successfully, it was a real stigma.

When I got the part, I tried to remember Batman as I knew him when I was a kid – with emotional recall.

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?

‘Batman’ was a colorful and wild ride.

Burgess Meredith taught me a lot about wine.

I’m not a vindictive kind of guy.

I have no patience with dinosaurs.

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.

I grew up on a ranch in Walla Walla, Washington. Except for one lawyer, I don’t remember anyone in my family being anything else but ranchers.

I was victimized by the old Hollywood typecasting thing. I had to really fight to get out of it, so I was uncomfortable with it.

I think it’s an actor’s job, if you can, to keep working and to keep using that muscle. First of all, you’ve got to pay the bills, but it also helps you develop.

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.

Life is full of ironies and absurdities.

I’m interested in film – any aspect – acting, directing, writing.

The new ‘Dark Knight’ movies, they’re wonderful in their own way.

In the late ’60s, there were the the three B’s: The Beatles, Batman, and Bond.

Some nights, I wear my cape, and I go out on the pier. It is foggy… I look for… Riddler.

I have become convinced that everything that is classy doesn’t go away.

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!

Oh, it’s fun to be an icon!

I just go my own way. If my agent calls and presents me with something, and I find it refreshing or illuminating, yeah, I’ll do it.

I am a simple man, though my wife says I am complicated. I’ll trust her on that one.

To play the leading man in a ‘Three Stooges’ movie, you’ve got to think funny. Thank God I think funny.

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.

My paintings capture the humor, zaniness, and depth of the Batman villains as well as the Freudian motivations of Batman as an all-too-human, venerable, and funny vigilante superhero.

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.

Isn’t it fun to be nuts? Isn’t it fun to be crazy?

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.

The Batmobile wasn’t a stickshift, and it was a challenge to drive, believe me.

I’ve been almost everywhere. But I’ve never been to the steppes of Latvia. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do.

To be an icon… I guess that’s a privilege.

You’ve got a guy in a cape and tights running around fighting crime 24-7; this is not normal. But it worked because the kids loved it and the adults laughed with it.

I am a private person. I don’t need a lot of company. And I find it really, really difficult to talk about myself.

It’s part of my character not to take myself too seriously. That’s one of the reasons I’ve been able to survive.

I don’t want to be Batman. Let Val Kilmer do it. I just want to be Uncle Batman. I have this whole ‘warm relationship’ plot in my mind. In the final scenes, the new Batmobile breaks down, the new Batman’s stranded on the side of the road. We grab our old Batmobile, pick him up and drive away.