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"Maybe it was all those wild times that kept me young"

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There is a wink baked into Burt Ward's line: youth here isn't a biological lottery, it's a side effect of living a little recklessly - or at least living in a way that felt reckless at the time. "Maybe" does a lot of work. It lets him claim the myth of eternal youth without sounding like a motivational poster, and it keeps the boast soft-edged: he's not insisting on a fact, he's inviting you to share the story.

The phrase "wild times" is conveniently elastic. For Ward, it can mean the literal mania of 1960s pop stardom - the fan frenzy, the relentless publicity, the weirdness of being forever associated with Robin's bright, boyish energy. It can also gesture toward the less polished realities behind that candy-colored TV world: sudden attention, temptation, hustle, and the way fame compresses time into a blur of nights and anecdotes. By not specifying, he protects the private details while still cashing in on the thrill of them.

Subtextually, it's a negotiation with nostalgia. Ward's public image is permanently youthful because the culture froze him at a certain age, in a certain costume, in a show that treated danger like a joke. The line flips that trap into a kind of agency: maybe he stayed young because he kept choosing intensity, novelty, motion. It's a tidy way to turn aging - and being remembered - into something that sounds like an earned reward rather than a sentence.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Ward, Burt. (2026, January 17). Maybe it was all those wild times that kept me young. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/maybe-it-was-all-those-wild-times-that-kept-me-42893/

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Ward, Burt. "Maybe it was all those wild times that kept me young." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/maybe-it-was-all-those-wild-times-that-kept-me-42893/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Maybe it was all those wild times that kept me young." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/maybe-it-was-all-those-wild-times-that-kept-me-42893/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Burt Ward (born July 6, 1945) is a Actor from USA.

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