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" 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.' "

Adam West

People

Family

" 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. "

Adam West

Love

Know

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

" When you go to the Sistine Chapel with Sophia Loren, it can be quite some time before your thoughts turn to the ceiling. "

" 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! "

" I have no patience with dinosaurs. "

Adam West

Dinosaurs

Patience

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

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

" Life is full of ironies and absurdities. "

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

" Over the years, I've learned that if you can just hang in there and, regardless of what's presented to you, take it as a challenge and try to bring in something fresh, then it works. "

" 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. "

" Some nights, I wear my cape, and I go out on the pier. It is foggy... I look for... Riddler. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When I got to Hollywood, there wasn't even a Boulevard. I'm that old. It was just a little dirt trail. I'm kidding. "

" 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. "

" Isn't it fun to be nuts? Isn't it fun to be crazy? "

" I used to spend hours just sitting in an old wreck of a car with a stickshift; I'd just sit there and shift. "

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

Adam West

Become

Classy

" 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. "

" When I was getting started, I was so busy just fighting my way through, and I was under contract at Warner Brothers. I did 40 hours of color television with the late Robert Taylor as a young cop. "