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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• Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Doing

• 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

• All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Want
  • Best
  • I Can

• 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

• The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Christian
  • Practice
  • Bible

• I'm not very good with conventional, prim-and-proper people who are well-behaved, grown-up.

  

  Lesley Nicol
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Mind
  • Understanding
  • Choices

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

  

  Peter Falk