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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The entertainment industry is loaded with extraordinarily talented people. But the true, genuine originals, they're rare.
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There isn't an Eskimo who doesn't love '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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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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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 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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What wouldn't have happened to me if I hadn't ended up in Hartford, Connecticut.
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I never turned a part down when they offered me money.
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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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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 thought actors were artists and that artists had to be European.
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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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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 did do my own stunts.
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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 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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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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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 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.