Quotes

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

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.

I did a character called Captain Q for Nestle's Quik. Those commercials were kind of funny.

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

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?

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

The new 'Dark Knight' movies, they're wonderful in their own way.

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.

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

I don't paint butter dishes, doilies, or hummingbirds in my garden. It's more raw, I suppose. But it always creates a reaction.

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

How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.

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.

Any incarnation of 'Batman' I am delighted to do.

I was a maverick. I went to five different colleges looking for I don't know quite what.

I grew up on a ranch in Walla Walla, Washington. Except for one lawyer, I don't remember anyone in my family being anything else but ranchers.

It's part of my character not to take myself too seriously. That's one of the reasons I've been able to survive.

I have no patience with dinosaurs.

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.

There was a time when 'Batman' really kept me from getting some pretty good roles, and I was asked to do what I figured were important features. However, Batman was there, and very few people would take a chance on me walking onto the screen. And they'd be taking people away from the story.

Burgess Meredith taught me a lot about wine.

I like to make people laugh and have fun.