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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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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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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If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone.
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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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What wouldn't have happened to me if I hadn't ended up in Hartford, Connecticut.
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There isn't an Eskimo who doesn't love 'Columbo.'
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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 never turned a part down when they offered me money.
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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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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.
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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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Initially, they wanted Columbo to wear a driving coat. I said: 'Are you kidding? He's not an English aristocrat.'
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Hartford had the Mark Twain Masquers, which was fantastic. They had been in business I don't know how many years. They knew how to build sets and sell tickets and put on a play. My day started at night. When I left the office, that's when my day began.
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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 only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85.
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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.