Peter Falk Quotes

I've been asked a few thousand times how much of Columbo is Falk and vice versa.

Peter Falk

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• I'm as addicted to 'Power' as I am 'Empire.' I'm just grateful. We get a chance to have two phenomenal shows that we can enjoy. So when 'Empire' is over, 'Power' starts. When 'Power' is over, 'Empire' starts.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Power
  • Enjoy
  • Shows

• It just feels good to know the work I did, people like it and love it - and continue to like and love it. It makes me feel real good that, after 20 years, 'Regulate' is still in heavy rotation all over the United States and all over the world.

  

  Warren G
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Me
  • Always
  • Characters

• I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Action
  • Fighting

• The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• For people to even think that I'd be considered or a good candidate for a supporting actress nomination is mind blowing to me.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Beautiful
  • Black
  • Chicago

• A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • World
  • Girl
  • Romantic

• Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • Work
  • Peace

• You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Life
  • Know
  • My Life

• Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Present
  • Literature
  • Poet

• I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.

  

  E. B. White
  • Life

• I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Wish
  • Challenge

• A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.

  

  Lester Bangs
  • Stupid
  • Hero

• The depiction of Africa has changed in the media in that it is not always poverty, disease, and so on.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Poverty

• As a young African, the sense of opportunity that fills my head on a daily basis is, I suspect, reminiscent of how young Africans felt at the cusp of independence.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Opportunity
  • Daily

• Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

  

  Jalal Talabani
  • Different

• Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Career

• Hopefully, after 'Victorious' has lived a long and beautiful life, I would like to go into movies. And I'd like to have a very successful movie career. Ultimately I'd love to win an Oscar; that's my big goal in life, so that's what I'm going for.

  

  Elizabeth Gillies
  • Life
  • Long
  • Movie

• Genetic testing in the future is going to be seen as critical as testing your cholesterol.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Future

• It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • Different
  • Heaven

• Good news is not news. Bad news sells. Confrontation sells. And that's what the press is always looking for. I'm not bragging, but I have the highest job-approval rating of any public official in the city. And I've had it consistently. The approval rating for the police department is 70 percent. This notion that stop-and-frisk has torn the community apart is false.

  

  Raymond Kelly
  • Community
  • Police
  • Bragging

• My father, Anthony, was a textile agent who sold fabric in the West End and was away a lot. He was very glamorous. When he first met my mum, he swept her off into this big, social world.

  

  Lisa Jewell
  • World
  • Father

• I've been asked a few thousand times how much of Columbo is Falk and vice versa.

  

  Peter Falk