A biography for Adam Westhasn’t been written yet.
“I like to make people laugh and have fun.”
“I love to go home and do the chores and read.”
“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've played dinner theaters. I'm a working stiff.”
“My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.”
“Playing Batman is an actor's challenge. First, it's different; then, you have to reach a multi-level audience. The kids take it straight, but for adults, we have to project it further.”
“Life is full of ironies and absurdities.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I've always been able to work. I think it's an actor's obligation to keep working if you can.”
“The new 'Dark Knight' movies, they're wonderful in their own way.”
“I would hate to be a bitter, aging actor.”
“When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.”
“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!”
“The word that scares the hell out of me is 'frail.' I don't want to be frail.”
“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.”
“Typecasting is really rampant in Hollywood, and because I played a costumed character and did it successfully, it was a real stigma.”
“Anything that triggers good memories can't be all bad.”
“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?”
“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.”