Peter Falk Quotes
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I remember being amazed that actors had a union. I thought only coal miners had unions, or guys that worked in automobile plants. That's an indication of how naive I was.
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I lose things. I am preoccupied. I am misty. Eyeglasses? I go through eyeglasses like tissue.
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I'm old fashioned. I really think you should know how to draw before you start painting. I use charcoal and graphite; I put a skylight in. In my house, I turned the garage into an art studio. So I'm awash in art studios.
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In 1958, I was shooting a movie in Florida, and I decided to go to Havana, Cuba, to see what it was like.
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I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.
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I once did a film in Russia because I wanted to see what the hell was going on there.
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Going to Hartford turned out to be the luckiest thing that ever happened to me.
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God didn't design anyone to be recognized by 2 billion people.
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I'm not an ace at small talk.
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The first time I ever spoke to John Cassavetes was at a Lakers game. I got up to go for a hot dog, and he was coming in the opposite direction. I don't know who said hello first, but we started talking, and it turned out that he went to high school with my first wife, Alice.
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The female body is awesome.
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Actors know one thing: If you're left just with words, you're in trouble.
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My wife loves to get all dressed up and go out, and I'm this gloomy Virgo. It works because of the mutual recognition that we are two democratic narcissists. She does what she has to do, and I do what I have to do. We respect that.
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When I was a kid growing up, you maybe secretly wanted to be an actor, but you never said.
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I don't dwell on it. But I guess everybody hopes that they go in their sleep and that it won't be long and painful.
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Oh, I was some efficiency expert. On my first day, I couldn't find my own office in Hartford and wound up in the Post Office.
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When I was growing up in Ossining, N.Y., playing pool with the guys, the thought that any one of us might become an actor was as far-fetched as being knighted by the queen of England.
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Good actors are always looking for props. They're looking for behavior. It makes it a lot easier. You're not solely dependent of what's coming out of your mouth. You're also less self-conscious, less aware of the camera.
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I am older than everyone I ever knew. All my dogs are dead. Half a dozen cats, parakeets... all gone.
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I'm makin' a lotta dough, everyone knows who you are, and who the hell cares whether you're typecast or not? Also, there's something wrong with complaining about being typecast in something you really enjoy doing.
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Before we ever had a script or anything, I was attracted to the idea of playing a character that housed within himself two opposing traits.
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Along came a police lieutenant named Columbo, and my life would never be the same.
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It became the joke of the neighbourhood. If the umpire ruled me out on a bad call, I'd take the fake eye out and hand it to him.
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Children ran up to me shouting, 'Columbo!' At first, it gave me great pleasure, but later, I said to myself that those children should have had their own heroes instead of admiring a cop from Los Angeles.