Quotes

Anything with 'Family Guy' is great.

I'm interested in film - any aspect - acting, directing, writing.

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

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

'Batman' was a colorful and wild ride.

The word that scares the hell out of me is 'frail.' I don't want to be frail.

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

Life is full of ironies and absurdities.

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.'

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.

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

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.

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 think our Batman had to be fun, light-hearted, funny, tongue-in-cheek... and I think that made kind of an homage to those earlier comic books, where Batman always had a quip or something.

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.

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

Typecasting is really rampant in Hollywood, and because I played a costumed character and did it successfully, it was a real stigma.

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!

You have no idea the people I meet when I do these Comic-Cons. When I go sign autographs and say hello to people, I see everything!

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.

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.

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.

There were definitely times when I regretted ever being Batman.

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

When I got the part, I tried to remember Batman as I knew him when I was a kid - with emotional recall.