Peter Falk Quotes
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There isn't an Eskimo who doesn't love '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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Acting is like golf: analysis leads to paralysis.
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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 never turned a part down when they offered me money.
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I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.
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I think people identify with Columbo because he is an average man.
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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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Initially, they wanted Columbo to wear a driving coat. I said: 'Are you kidding? He's not an English aristocrat.'
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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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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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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 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 did do my own stunts.
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I thought actors were artists and that artists had to be European.
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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 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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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.