Adam West Quotes
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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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Anything that triggers good memories can't be all bad.
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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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Isn't it fun to be nuts? Isn't it fun to be crazy?
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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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The Batmobile wasn't a stickshift, and it was a challenge to drive, believe me.
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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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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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Burgess Meredith taught me a lot about wine.
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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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My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.
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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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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've played dinner theaters. I'm a working stiff.
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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.
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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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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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Anything with 'Family Guy' is great.
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'Batman' was a colorful and wild ride.
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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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I have become convinced that everything that is classy doesn't go away.
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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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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.