Quotes from Adam West

People love Batman, and I would be stupid, I would be a fool if I didn't love Batman.

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.

I was victimized by the old Hollywood typecasting thing. I had to really fight to get out of it, so I was uncomfortable with it.

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.

I'm not a vindictive kind of guy.

I've been almost everywhere. But I've never been to the steppes of Latvia. It's something I've always wanted to do.

I think I've said I'm the luckiest actor in the world. I mean that.

I'm like Madonna: I keep reinventing myself.

I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.

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."

My paintings capture the humor, zaniness, and depth of the Batman villains as well as the Freudian motivations of Batman as an all-too-human, venerable, and funny vigilante superhero.