Adam West Quotes

Like a lot of people, I've often wondered what else I might have been. When I was younger, but even after I was a child, I thought Batman was the whole package. Smart, calculating, pragmatic. Depressed, but in a way women found hot. Tragic at his core and struggling with his demons while trying to save the world.

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.

On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.

There has been the biggest black cloud following me around. People believe it's all my fault that Steve is not here. He has always had an open door, and he doesn't choose to do this any more.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties.

Did I kill anyone?

Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably.

I more than suspect that he is deeply conscious of being in the wrong, -- that he feels the blood of this Mexican war, like the blood of Abel, is crying to Heaven against him.... He is a bewildered, confounded, and miserably perplexed man.

It is dreadful to be condemned to inactivity in this war which I prepared and initiated.

Out of all of the Spider-People, including Peter Parker, Gwen Stacy has the most over-developed sense of responsibility.

As a son and as a father, there are still various things that I haven't done as well as I should have - that's my dilemma and regret.

I'm kind of living a Bruce Wayne life and then morphing into Batman, but I'm glad now Batman comes out during the day. That's kind of like how drag was: we were called upon at night to make people smile and laugh and clap.

If you had special powers, it wouldn't be all fun and games. There would be regrets for things you've done.

I get it, okay? I shouldn't be doing this. I shouldn't be giving Jake Paul a platform.

I felt guilty - like, I leaked this memo, and now there's going to be a witch hunt for the person who did it, and I'm not going to be able to deny it. That was when reality hit.

I know I've done the right thing but I couldn't feel worse about it, and I suppose that is part of what it is to lead.

It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.

Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

Oh, how precious is time! And how guilty it makes me feel when I think I have trifled away and misimproved it, or neglected to fill up each part of it with duty to the utmost of my ability and capacity

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.

Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers), caught between their conscience and the bleak horizon.

I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.