Peter Falk Quotes
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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.
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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'm just looking to get through the day.
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I wanted to become an actor, but I didn't want to admit it.
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It helps an actor an awful lot when he looks like the part. There's nothing more disconcerting, that makes you more anxious or more insecure, than when you don't look like who you're supposed to be.
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I like stories that grow, that have unpredictable layers. As opposed to Hollywood movies that start out with a lot of shock and noise and peter out into an unconvincing cliche.
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I thought actors were artists and that artists had to be European.
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I don't like getting up in the morning, getting in a car, driving on a freeway, and stopping at a gate where two guards are standing there, then walk into a studio that looks like a bunch of airplane hangars.
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If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.
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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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Your instincts for what's dramatic are the same whether you're working on a drawing or on a script.
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I used to have this idea that you can spend years in the movies and TV and then, at the drop of a hat, say 'Oh, I'll go back and do the theater.'
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I used to dread somebody saying, 'Whatsa matter with your eye?'
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Usually, I get hired because I'm tall.
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Sure, I miss some things about the stage. The thing I like is the immediacy. But then I complain, 'I gotta do the same part for six months.'
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To be a theater actor, I think you have to do plays all the time.
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I do figure every angle of a guy I'm acting - but not consciously 'til afterward.
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I've never worried about the grand concepts.
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The whole thing was an actor's dream - getting a character that tickles you so much you can't wait to act as him.
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The truth is, no one is like Columbo.