Peter Falk Quotes
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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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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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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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I think people identify with Columbo because he is an average man.
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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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There isn't an Eskimo who doesn't love 'Columbo.'
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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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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 thought actors were artists and that artists had to be European.
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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 never turned a part down when they offered me money.
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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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What wouldn't have happened to me if I hadn't ended up in Hartford, Connecticut.
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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 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 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 did do my own stunts.
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I still get fan mail for Columbo.
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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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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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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 came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.
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I got a regret: That I started acting so late. I was 27, and guys who start at 18 or so, there's this kinda continuity of friendships they form in the profession by startin' young, I've never had that.