Adam West Quotes

I've played dinner theaters. I'm a working stiff.

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• Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Know

• Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Think
  • Stars
  • Talk

• I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Acting

• He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Touch
  • Starts
  • Straw

• I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Think
  • Way
  • Alone

• Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Celebrity
  • Realize

• Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Day
  • Movies
  • Museums

• Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

  

  Yousef Munayyer
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Respect

• One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert.

  

  Owen Paterson
  • Everyone
  • British
  • Dessert

• I do a lot of damage to my hair every day because of my work. I just noticed this huge change. It started getting thinner and it started falling out. I hit 30, and I literally felt like I was balding!

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • Work
  • Change
  • Day

• If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Friends
  • Friend
  • Hand

• I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Weird
  • Find
  • Princess

• I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Always
  • Geek
  • Closet

• I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tour.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Time
  • Look
  • Open

• My first job as premier will be to go back to basics.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Job
  • First
  • Basics

• I need to lose some weight. I'm getting really fat. But I'm getting older, and I just can't stop eating wonderful food. Rich, wonderful food.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Food
  • Stop
  • Fat

• Along the road your steps may stumbleYour thoughts may start to strayBut through it all a heart held humbleLevels and lights your way.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Heart
  • May
  • Road

• I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life

• I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Guy
  • Monday
  • Wednesday

• Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Understand
  • Experiences
  • Image

• Look at me!’ I screeched. ‘Look at me, Amadeus von Linden, you sadistic hypocrite, and watch this time! You’re not questioning me now, this isn’t your work, I’m not an enemy agent spewing wireless code! I’m just a minging Scots slag screaming insults at your daughter! So enjoy yourself and watch! Think of Isolde! Think of Isolde and watch!

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Enemy
  • Enjoy
  • Watch

• Usually after a shot, we look for a chair to rest our feet. In 'Oopiri,' it was the other way around. After every shot, I was on my feet, walking around the set trying to get the blood circulation in my legs working properly.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Trying
  • Rest
  • Walking

• I've played dinner theaters. I'm a working stiff.

  

  Adam West