Peter Falk Quotes

I do figure every angle of a guy I'm acting - but not consciously 'til afterward.

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• I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Movie

• My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Good
  • Music
  • Home

• I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Family
  • Love
  • Perfect

• I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • People
  • Together
  • Me

• We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Sex

• Scott Foley was always fun because he's a very funny guy. So I liked working with him a bunch.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Fun
  • Guy
  • Funny

• In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Always

• We try to make the name longer and longer every year. First, it was 'Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular.' Then it was 'It's a Very Larry Christmas.' Now it's 'Larry the Cable Guy's Hula-palooza Christmas Luau.' I'll tell you what it is: It's funny. That's what it is. Who cares what the name of it is? It is a funny special.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Christmas

• In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Together
  • Guy
  • Woman

• I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Work
  • Age
  • Guy

• Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Fun
  • Guy
  • Game

• I'm a big guy, but I'm really simple with the food. I'll hit the In-N-Out or just the regular buffets.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Guy
  • Food
  • Simple

• The reason why nothing sticks to Trump - or very little sticks to Trump - is that he created this brand idea that has to do with being the guy who gets away from it.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Reason

• One of the things that I like about 'Narcos' is that not only Pablo but with all the characters - this is not a black and white show. This is not a regular American cop show where two cool cops go to save a country from a bad guy. All the characters are very complex.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Country
  • American
  • Bad

• I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Love
  • Character

• I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Action

• Because I'm so in the eye of the hurricane, I don't have a really good perception of what's happening. I'm in a room talking to people, and that's all I know. But sometimes I go out of these rooms - I live in L.A., and every now and then, maybe twice a week, I'll be somewhere, and someone will say, 'Hey, are you the guy that made Moonlight?'

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.

  

  Pete Rose
  • Believe
  • Guy

• I said (to Daniel Jones), 'You realise I'm always going to be The Guy From Savage Garden'. He said, 'How do you think I feel? I'm The Other One From Savage Garden!'

  

  Darren Hayes Savage Garden
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • Garden

• We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks.

  

  Jim Cramer
  • Country
  • Job

• Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Long
  • Dumb

• I do figure every angle of a guy I'm acting - but not consciously 'til afterward.

  

  Peter Falk
  • Guy