Quotes from Adam West

I am a private person. I don't need a lot of company. And I find it really, really difficult to talk about myself.

My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.

I'm a fan of anything that's good, especially when it's conscientiously good.

All I know is that my fans have been really wonderful and affectionate.

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.

'Batman' was a colorful and wild ride.

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

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?

Burgess Meredith taught me a lot about wine.

To play the leading man in a 'Three Stooges' movie, you've got to think funny. Thank God I think funny.

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.

Look at 'Batman' - that was theater of the absurd, as is 'Family Guy.'

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

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.

When 'Family Guy' came along, it was like a gift, and it expanded my fan base.

I have become convinced that everything that is classy doesn't go away.

I love to go home and do the chores and read.

The new 'Dark Knight' movies, they're wonderful in their own way.

The wonderful thing with some of the things I've done - most of them, really - is to be trusted. To be able to do your thing, to work on it, hone it into my gem of creativity!

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.

Batman had a certain speech pattern that I established because he was always Sherlock Holmes-ian. He was Basil Rathbone. In other words, he was always musing about something.

In the late '60s, there were the the three B's: The Beatles, Batman, and Bond.

I like Christian Bale. I've heard he's a big fan of mine, but I certainly reciprocate. I think he's really very good.

I like to make people laugh and have fun.