Peter Falk Quotes
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My idea of Heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing.
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I'm secretly very stuffy.
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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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In the beginning, when you're acting in amateur theater and off-Broadway, it was unheard of that anyone else would get your costume. And it was important to get a good costume. You put time into that.
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What's the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minutes.
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To be totally sincere, I'd surely be a better actor today if I hadn't played Columbo all these years.
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There were no artists in Ossining, which was the home of Sing Sing prison. Most of the parents of the guys I knew were guards there.
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I love Chicago. It's one of the great cities. I'm crazy about the town. It reminds me of New York when it was at its best, the New York that used to be and is no more. I love the architecture, the old stuff and the new stuff.
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I've been there a thousand years, and I never felt comfortable. Beverly Hills - when I first saw it, I thought they put it up this morning. You got to pack water to get to the drugstore.
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When I was young, I was looking for people to look up to - role models I could respect.
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Strange thing, this television.
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I hate to talk about typecasting, because being typecast as Columbo ain't cancer.
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I've worked with some terrific actors. The list of guys that came on the 'Columbo' show, I mean they were world-class actors from all over the world - Oskar Werner, Laurence Harvey, Donald Pleasence, you know... foreigners.
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Even the first year of 'Columbo,' 'Columbo' was Jesus Christ, No. 1, you know.
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Certainly, you envy the guys that have done all kinds of things, a variety of good scripts and good directors. Then again, having worked with Cassavetes has satisfied a big part of that.
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Acting is like golf: analysis leads to paralysis.
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I had no idea when I graduated from high school and then from graduate school what I wanted to do with my life. I had no idea that I was ever going to be an actor.
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Columbo was never comfortable if somebody considered him unique or smart.
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The entertainment industry is loaded with extraordinarily talented people. But the true, genuine originals, they're rare.
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You think you're in another civilization, another time, and then you see antennas coming out of these hovels, and your mouth falls open when you see the descendants of the Incas shouting 'Columbo! Columbo!'
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They wouldn't take me in the navy because of my glass eye. So I joined the merchant navy, who allowed monocular crew if you worked in the kitchens. You're not wanted on deck or in the engine room with one eye, but you're good to fire up the ovens and cook hundreds of chops.
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My father's whole life was work. He had a retail store in Ossining, New York, and I mean, he was down there at 6:15 every morning. The store didn't open until 9, but he hadda be down there. That's all he knew.
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In the theater, you didn't have any marks. Your instincts in rehearsal told you what the blocking was. On film, they reversed it. They decided ahead of time what your instincts were, before you even arrived.