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- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to spend hours just sitting in an old wreck of a car with a stickshift; I'd just sit there and shift.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Batmobile wasn't a stickshift, and it was a challenge to drive, believe me.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a private person. I don't need a lot of company. And I find it really, really difficult to talk about myself.
- Ironies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is full of ironies and absurdities.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Hang In There
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the curse of thinking funny!
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Icon
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be an icon... I guess that's a privilege.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Icon
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, it's fun to be an icon!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not to be able to move around or do things without thinking - that's tough. I may end up that way, but if I do, I hope to hell my intellect will take over, and I'll find some kind of joy and a way to contribute.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Typecasting is really rampant in Hollywood, and because I played a costumed character and did it successfully, it was a real stigma.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I got the part, I tried to remember Batman as I knew him when I was a kid - with emotional recall.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a maverick. I went to five different colleges looking for I don't know quite what.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything with 'Family Guy' is great.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that triggers good memories can't be all bad.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe we could find some way to send barges of trash to the sun and incinerate it all. Hey, it's an idea. It's an idea!
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been almost everywhere. But I've never been to the steppes of Latvia. It's something I've always wanted to do.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a character called Captain Q for Nestle's Quik. Those commercials were kind of funny.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
People love Batman, and I would be stupid, I would be a fool if I didn't love Batman.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Isn't it fun to be nuts? Isn't it fun to be crazy?
- Colorful
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Batman' was a colorful and wild ride.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some nights, I wear my cape, and I go out on the pier. It is foggy... I look for... Riddler.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's part of my character not to take myself too seriously. That's one of the reasons I've been able to survive.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no patience with dinosaurs.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Burgess Meredith taught me a lot about wine.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you hang around long enough, they think you're good. It's either my tenacity or stupidity - I'm not sure which.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to make people laugh and have fun.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a very real sense, I represent pop culture in an iconic way. It's been very good to me, so anything I can do to help the fans to tumble along - it's good.
- Any
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any incarnation of 'Batman' I am delighted to do.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to go home and do the chores and read.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
To play the leading man in a 'Three Stooges' movie, you've got to think funny. Thank God I think funny.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been able to work. I think it's an actor's obligation to keep working if you can.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't paint butter dishes, doilies, or hummingbirds in my garden. It's more raw, I suppose. But it always creates a reaction.
- Mask
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.
- Played
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've played dinner theaters. I'm a working stiff.
- Actor
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a plumber, you plumb. I'm an actor. I act.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm like Madonna: I keep reinventing myself.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Aging
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would hate to be a bitter, aging actor.
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come to Comic-Con in San Diego because this is where those fans are - those to whom I owe the longevity of my career.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was victimized by the old Hollywood typecasting thing. I had to really fight to get out of it, so I was uncomfortable with it.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've hung on for a long time in this business and had some success, and I think it's keeping an open mind and being curious and having a sense of humor about oneself that's important.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always shied away from 'Where are they now?' shows, because I've been lucky enough to keep working, and people know where I am.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.
- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020