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Adam West
American
Actor
Born:
Sep 19
,
1928
Died:
Jun 9
,
2017
Actor
Batman
Been
Me
People
You
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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.
Adam West
You
Try
Challenge
Something
Take
Over
Learned
Fresh
Years
Hang
Hang In There
Just
Regardless
Then
Works
Bring
Presented
In the late '60s, there were the the three B's: The Beatles, Batman, and Bond.
Adam West
Beatles
Three
Late
Batman
Were
Bond
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.
Adam West
Relationship
Old
Mind
Uncle
Drive
Down
Val
Final
Side
Our
Batman
Plot
Scenes
Pick
Road
New
Him
Up
Grab
Just
Want
Breaks
Warm
Stranded
Whole
Away
Anything that triggers good memories can't be all bad.
Adam West
Good
Memories
Bad
Triggers
Anything
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.
Adam West
You
Strange
Waiting
Giving
Mask
Sense
Batman
Way
Out
Something
He
Without
Audience
Get
Behind
Little
Serious
Play
To play the leading man in a 'Three Stooges' movie, you've got to think funny. Thank God I think funny.
Adam West
Funny
God
You
Man
Thank God
Three
Think
Leading
Leading Man
Got
Thank
Stooges
Movie
Play
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.
Adam West
You
Crime
Fighting
Kids
Laughed
Running
Guy
Adult
Because
Around
Got
Tights
Normal
Loved
Cape
Worked
I have become convinced that everything that is classy doesn't go away.
Adam West
Become
Go Away
Everything
Classy
Go
Convinced
Away
When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.
Adam West
Character
You
Will
Mask
Nothing
Faster
Wear
Pigeonhole
Create
I used to spend hours just sitting in an old wreck of a car with a stickshift; I'd just sit there and shift.
Adam West
Old
Car
Sit
Spend
Wreck
Hours
Shift
Sitting
Just
Used
I have no patience with dinosaurs.
Adam West
Patience
Dinosaurs
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.
Adam West
Words
Other
Batman
About
Something
Had
He
Because
Always
Sherlock
Established
In Other Words
Pattern
Certain
Speech
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.
Adam West
Father
Power
Few
About
Had
Trucks
Talk
Around
Lot
Quite
Wheat
Grandfather
Mule
Mules
I am a simple man, though my wife says I am complicated. I'll trust her on that one.
Adam West
Man
Trust
Complicated
Simple
Wife
Says
Though
Am
Her
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!
Adam West
You
People
Meet
Everything
Say
Sign
See
No Idea
Idea
Go
Autographs
Hello
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.
Adam West
Old
Kidding
Dirt
Boulevard
Got
Trail
Just
Little
Hollywood
Even
Burgess Meredith taught me a lot about wine.
Adam West
Me
Wine
About
Lot
Taught
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.
Adam West
Culture
People
Recognition
Something
Part
Bucks
New
Became
How
Least
Go
Been
Very
Getting
Rewarding
Being
Wherever
Movies
Warmth
Shot
Pop
Pop Culture
Many
Actor
Million
Million Bucks
The new 'Dark Knight' movies, they're wonderful in their own way.
Adam West
Wonderful
Dark
Own
Way
Knight
New
Movies
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.
Adam West
Ocean
Speed
Favorite
Out
Run
High
Because
Around
Get
Fun
Thing
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?
Adam West
Myself
Age
Whatever
Able
Terrific
Audience
How
Been
Get
Going
Mean
Many
Keep
Actor
Reinvent
Chance
Oh, it's fun to be an icon!
Adam West
Oh
Icon
Fun
The word that scares the hell out of me is 'frail.' I don't want to be frail.
Adam West
Me
Word
Hell
Frail
Out
Scares
Want
Typecasting is really rampant in Hollywood, and because I played a costumed character and did it successfully, it was a real stigma.
Adam West
Character
Rampant
Because
Real
Stigma
Did
Hollywood
Really
Successfully
Played
All I know is that my fans have been really wonderful and affectionate.
Adam West
Wonderful
Fans
Know
Been
Affectionate
Really
When I got the part, I tried to remember Batman as I knew him when I was a kid - with emotional recall.
Adam West
Remember
Batman
Kid
Tried
Emotional
Part
Knew
Him
Got
Recall
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