Peter Falk Quotes
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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 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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If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone.
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I think people identify with Columbo because he is an average man.
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If you were brought up in the '40s, a kid in Ossining, New York, hanging out at the poolroom and stealing, how can you think, 'Here I am in Ossining. I, too, can be a movie star!'
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It depends how lenient you are with your definition of artist. If you're going to include those who tap dance at the high school recital, then maybe I am.
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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 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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There isn't an Eskimo who doesn't love 'Columbo.'
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What wouldn't have happened to me if I hadn't ended up in Hartford, Connecticut.
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I did do my own stunts.
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I still get fan mail for Columbo.
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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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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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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 never turned a part down when they offered me money.
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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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I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.
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I thought actors were artists and that artists had to be European.
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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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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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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 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.