Adam West Quotes

I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it.

Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they're done towards yourself.

They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.

Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it.

I don't talk to myself or anything, but sometimes I say things and I laugh at myself. Sometimes you have to make fun of yourself.

People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.

I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.

My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens.

I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

I'm probably not very funny. The scripts just don't come in, or the ones that do aren't that good. I suppose I'm just an old drama queen, really.

My next book's title is going to be, 'I Have One Foot in the Grave and Another on a Banana Peel.'

One of the first roles I every played, I was Grandpa Vanderhoff in 'You Can't Take It With You.' Walked with a cane, white stuff in my hair. It must have been horrible. Thank God there's no videotape of it.

An old-codger comedy - that's what I want to do.

Betty White is so old that on her first game show ever, the prize was fire.

I think I've got more humour than comes across.

It's how we live, making fun of ourselves.

I'll be 50 years old tomorrow and that means, among other things, that now Bob Dole can start telling jokes about me.

Helen Hart is so old, she remembers when the Dead Sea was sick.

It's tough getting older. You start falling apart, you know? My gums are starting to recede now. You can't tell tonight, though, 'cause I comb them forward.

I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries.