Top 95 Quotes & Sayings by Adam West - Page 2

There was a time when 'Batman' really kept me from getting some pretty good roles, and I was asked to do what I figured were important features. However, Batman was there, and very few people would take a chance on me walking onto the screen. And they'd be taking people away from the story.

I'm interested in film - any aspect - acting, directing, writing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 get called 'Mayor West' a lot in airports. I've been very fortunate to have a fan base that keeps growing, and the work gets such a warm response and humor from people.

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.

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

I am a simple man, though my wife says I am complicated. I'll trust her on that one.

I come to Comic-Con in San Diego because this is where those fans are - those to whom I owe the longevity of my career.

I've always been able to work. I think it's an actor's obligation to keep working if you can.

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.

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

One of the most gratifying, rewarding things is when people come up, and they tell you how the show influenced their lives in a very positive way. When I do these things like Comic Con, I get people who are lawyers, judges, plumbers, carpenters, and entire families, and it's mostly for 'Batman.' But now, amazingly, it's also for 'Family Guy.'

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.

I have the curse of thinking funny!

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.

Any incarnation of 'Batman' I am delighted to do.

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.

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.

Some nights, I wear my cape, and I go out on the pier. It is foggy... I look for... Riddler.

Hand me down the shark repellent Bat-Spray!

If you hang around long enough, they think you're good. It's either my tenacity or my stupidity, I'm not sure which.

Wasn't that a wonderful thing that I had a chance to work with more great actors, big stars, than just about anyone in the history of Hollywood? And some days I didn't know with whom I'd be standing face-to-face, and I was so impressed because they were all really wonderful people. And when you work with Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin, George Sanders as Mr. Freeze, it's a wonderful experience.

It's not the kind of tuna that I eat.

Sometimes you just can't get rid of a bomb!

Be very careful about your care. Don't use it for sexual high jinks. It can get ugly - trust me. Also be careful when flushing.

Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for courageous action.

I think it's that wherever I go, people are so nice to me, and they come up by the hundreds, and they say nice, funny things. As an actor, I just like to make people happy, make them laugh. That's our job, to entertain, and if I'm entertaining you folks, then I'm happy.

When I was a kid, I read comics. But when I saw how funny it was, and how wonderfully absurd, I said, "You know, I gotta do this."

One of the first things I look for in a woman I meet is a sense of humor, a sort of light acceptance of the world and the people who live in it.

When you get a little older, you'll see how easy it is to become lured by the female of the species.