"I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around."
"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 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."
"I used to spend hours just sitting in an old wreck of a car with a stickshift; I'd just sit there and shift."
"The Batmobile wasn't a stickshift, and it was a challenge to drive, believe me."
"I am a simple man, though my wife says I am complicated. I'll trust her on that one."
"I am a private person. I don't need a lot of company. And I find it really, really difficult to talk about myself."
"When you go to the Sistine Chapel with Sophia Loren, it can be quite some time before your thoughts turn to the ceiling."
"Life is full of ironies and absurdities."
"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!"
"Look at 'Batman' - that was theater of the absurd, as is 'Family Guy.'"
"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.'"
"It's a wonderful thing to be able to make fun of yourself and to do it in a way that sort of preserves your dignity but, at the same time, lets you play the theater of the absurd."
"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."
"I have the curse of thinking funny!"
"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."
"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."
"To be an icon... I guess that's a privilege."
"The new 'Dark Knight' movies, they're wonderful in their own way."
"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 think I've said I'm the luckiest actor in the world. I mean that."
"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?"
"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."
"Oh, it's fun to be an icon!"
"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."
