Peter Falk Quotes

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 was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Girl
  • Fighting
  • Little

• I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Good
  • Power
  • Hope

• I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Guy
  • Feeling

• Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Work
  • Discipline
  • Commitment

• I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Broken
  • Down

• When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • Important
  • Nature
  • Deep

• To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Death
  • Man
  • Die

• Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Pretty
  • Die
  • Fire

• Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • America
  • Better
  • Step

• I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Career
  • Research
  • Going

• I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Live
  • Without
  • Activity

• Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Work
  • Live
  • Night

• Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Need

• From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • People
  • Important
  • Friends

• If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Fans

• Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Very
  • Throw

• In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Different
  • Always
  • Brain

• A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

  

  Hale White
  • Power
  • True
  • Knowledge

• The best start-ups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults. The biggest difference is that cults tend to be fanatically wrong about something important. People at a successful start-up are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• I wish one and all long and happy lives, no matter what may become of them afterwards. Use sunscreen! Don’t smoke cigarettes. Cigars, however, are good for you … Firearms are also good for you … Gunpowder has zero fat and zero cholesterol. That goes for dumdums, too.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
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  • May

• I think I'm open to adventures and surprises. As a performer, I'm really just naturally talented. And those roles may not look as good on paper, but I know how to create them on screen. I like to have fun and interpret my roles in my own way.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Good
  • May
  • Fun

• I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • Thoughts

• You don't need to exorcise your personal demons onstage.

  

  Jimmy Kimmel

• 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.

  

  Peter Falk
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