Adam West Quotes
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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.
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The Batmobile wasn't a stickshift, and it was a challenge to drive, believe me.
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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.
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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.
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Any incarnation of 'Batman' I am delighted to do.
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My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.
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Anything that triggers good memories can't be all bad.
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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.
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Burgess Meredith taught me a lot about wine.
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Anything with 'Family Guy' is great.
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I'm interested in film - any aspect - acting, directing, writing.
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If you hang around long enough, they think you're good. It's either my tenacity or stupidity - I'm not sure which.
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It's part of my character not to take myself too seriously. That's one of the reasons I've been able to survive.
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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.
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I've played dinner theaters. I'm a working stiff.
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I think I've said I'm the luckiest actor in the world. I mean that.
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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?
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Maybe we could find some way to send barges of trash to the sun and incinerate it all. Hey, it's an idea. It's an idea!
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'Batman' was a colorful and wild ride.
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I have the curse of thinking funny!