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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 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.
Peter Falk
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What wouldn't have happened to me if I hadn't ended up in Hartford, Connecticut.
Peter Falk -
The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85.
Peter Falk -
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.
Peter Falk -
I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.
Peter Falk -
I used to dread somebody saying, 'Whatsa matter with your eye?'
Peter Falk -
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.
Peter Falk
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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.
Peter Falk -
I'm just looking to get through the day.
Peter Falk -
I thought actors were artists and that artists had to be European.
Peter Falk -
I watch practically no TV - ah, what the hell do I watch? Oh, I was for a long time addicted to CNN.
Peter Falk -
Usually, I get hired because I'm tall.
Peter Falk -
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.'
Peter Falk
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I do figure every angle of a guy I'm acting - but not consciously 'til afterward.
Peter Falk -
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.'
Peter Falk -
To be a theater actor, I think you have to do plays all the time.
Peter Falk -
The whole thing was an actor's dream - getting a character that tickles you so much you can't wait to act as him.
Peter Falk -
The truth is, no one is like Columbo.
Peter Falk -
I've never worried about the grand concepts.
Peter Falk