Adam West

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

“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.”

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

“'Batman' was a colorful and wild ride.”

“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!”

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

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

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

“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.”

“To be an icon... I guess that's a privilege.”

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

“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.”

“Oh, it's fun to be an icon!”

“I'm not a vindictive kind of guy.”

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

“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.'”

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

“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.”