For Bale, the most gruelling part about playing Batman was the suit.

Our first night was destroyed by children playing Batman and Rambo next door, and their parents' shouting.

"I'm not playing Batman and Robin so we can chase all over the state after them."

Lowery had played Batman in 1949; he was featured in over seventy films in his own career.

"Of course, some of us were busy playing Batman while the older ones were rediscovering our heritage."

"You've got the best basketball player in the world out there, standing underneath the basket, playing Batman," he said.

Adam West is an actor best known for playing Batman on a popular 1960s television series.

Thus, he arranges for actor Adam West, who played Batman, to come to his birthday party.

He was also known to Ross as having been one of the leading candidates to play Batman a decade earlier.