Quotes from Adam West

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.

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.

There were definitely times when I regretted ever being Batman.

Anything that triggers good memories can't be all bad.

I have no patience with dinosaurs.

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.

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 would hate to be a bitter, aging actor.

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

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 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.

The Batmobile wasn't a stickshift, and it was a challenge to drive, believe me.

I don't paint butter dishes, doilies, or hummingbirds in my garden. It's more raw, I suppose. But it always creates a reaction.

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

Anything that triggers good memories can't be all bad.

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.

If you're a plumber, you plumb. I'm an actor. I act.

I was a maverick. I went to five different colleges looking for I don't know quite what.

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

When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.

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 have the curse of thinking funny!

My grandfather and my father had wheat ranches, so we had quite a few trucks around and a lot of mules. Talk about horsepower - we had mule power.

How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.