Adam West Quotes

I have no patience with dinosaurs.

The word that scares the hell out of me is ‘frail.’ I don’t want to be frail.

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

I’m not a vindictive kind of guy.

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

Life is full of ironies and absurdities.

I’m a fan of anything that’s good, especially when it’s conscientiously good.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

In a very real sense, I represent pop culture in an iconic way. It’s been very good to me, so anything I can do to help the fans to tumble along – it’s good.

I like to make people laugh and have fun.

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’ve always shied away from ‘Where are they now?’ shows, because I’ve been lucky enough to keep working, and people know where I am.

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

There were definitely times when I regretted ever being Batman.

I have the curse of thinking funny!

‘Batman’ was a colorful and wild ride.

I’m like Madonna: I keep reinventing myself.

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.

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

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

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.

When ‘Family Guy’ came along, it was like a gift, and it expanded my fan base.

I love to go home and do the chores and read.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

I used to spend hours just sitting in an old wreck of a car with a stickshift; I’d just sit there and shift.

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 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.

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’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.