Adam West Quotes
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When I got the part, I tried to remember Batman as I knew him when I was a kid - with emotional recall.
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The Batmobile wasn't a stickshift, and it was a challenge to drive, believe me.
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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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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.
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Anything that triggers good memories can't be all bad.
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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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Any incarnation of 'Batman' I am delighted to do.
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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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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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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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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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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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My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.
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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'm interested in film - any aspect - acting, directing, writing.
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I've played dinner theaters. I'm a working stiff.
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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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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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Anything with 'Family Guy' is great.
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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'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.
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'Batman' was a colorful and wild ride.
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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.