Peter Falk Quotes
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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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If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone.
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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.
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When I go see a basketball game, I'm always in the front row. I always have a table at a restaurant; I never have trouble getting a taxi.
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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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The entertainment industry is loaded with extraordinarily talented people. But the true, genuine originals, they're rare.
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Everybody wants to be a movie star. I bet if you ask that guy would he like to be a movie star, he'd say, 'Sure.'
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I think people identify with Columbo because he is an average man.
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I used to take girls out on a date to Night Court. And I'll tell you, most girls, they got a kick out of going to Night Court. 'Cause you get a lot of laughs... and it's cheap.
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I never turned a part down when they offered me money.
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Sometimes I was in school plays, but only when the kid they'd originally picked got sick and they asked me to substitute.
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If I'm a guy reading a newspaper, and I hear this actor who I know gets great seats at basketball games, and he's complaining about being typecast, I think, 'Hey man, count your blessings.'
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I thought actors were artists and that artists had to be European.
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You thought the stage, you thought Broadway: that was the pot at the end of the rainbow. The idea of being in Hollywood was like going to the Moon or Mars.
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I did do my own stunts.
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There's a bit of a problem. The script that I like, the network doesn't like. The script that they like, I don't like.
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I didn't become an actor until I was an old man of 28 or 29. I declared to the world that I was an actor. Nobody heard me, but I did declare it.
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I watch practically no TV - ah, what the hell do I watch? Oh, I was for a long time addicted to CNN.
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I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.
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I still get fan mail for Columbo.
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Initially, they wanted Columbo to wear a driving coat. I said: 'Are you kidding? He's not an English aristocrat.'
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I've been asked a few thousand times how much of Columbo is Falk and vice versa.
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The celebrity craze is a little much. But it's good for me, so you don't bite the hand that feeds you.
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I had two ambitions: One was to be in The Actors Studio, and the other was to walk into a bar where actors hung out, and everyone would know that I was a professional actor and I would be accepted.