"I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know, the ladies start coming into our dressing rooms at 7:45"
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Ward, forever culturally frozen as TV's Robin, is also selling a behind-the-scenes mythology of the 1960s set: a world where the boundaries between labor and libido blur before the coffee has kicked in. The phrasing "the ladies" is doing a lot of quiet work, too. It's breezy and distancing, a gentlemanly euphemism that keeps the anecdote on the safe side of confession while still signaling conquest. He doesn't name anyone, doesn't describe anything explicit; he implies inevitability. Attention happens to him, as if it's weather.
The subtext is a negotiation with legacy. Child-friendly superhero television produced a fantasy for audiences; Ward hints at a parallel adult fantasy for the cast. It's a flex, but also a protective move: if your career is defined by one brightly colored role, you keep relevance by making the backstage story feel wilder than the onscreen one. It's not just nostalgia. It's a reminder that celebrity, especially for young male stars, was long treated as a workplace perk - and that the culture encouraged them to narrate it as harmless fun.
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Ward, Burt. (2026, January 16). I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know, the ladies start coming into our dressing rooms at 7:45. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-mean-when-you-come-into-the-set-at-730-in-the-139057/
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Ward, Burt. "I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know, the ladies start coming into our dressing rooms at 7:45." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-mean-when-you-come-into-the-set-at-730-in-the-139057/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know, the ladies start coming into our dressing rooms at 7:45." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-mean-when-you-come-into-the-set-at-730-in-the-139057/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.




