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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.

I once did a film in Russia because I wanted to see what the hell was going on there.

Peter Falk

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.

Peter Falk

Usually, I get hired because I'm tall.

Peter Falk

I do figure every angle of a guy I'm acting - but not consciously 'til afterward.

Peter Falk

Most people think glamor is happiness.

Peter Falk

I never turned a part down when they offered me money.

Peter Falk

I don't dwell on it. But I guess everybody hopes that they go in their sleep and that it won't be long and painful.

Peter Falk

I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.

Peter Falk

The celebrity craze is a little much. But it's good for me, so you don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Peter Falk

Actors know one thing: If you're left just with words, you're in trouble.

Peter Falk

I'm secretly very stuffy.

Peter Falk

Sometimes I was in school plays, but only when the kid they'd originally picked got sick and they asked me to substitute.

Peter Falk

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

When I was a kid, the idea of gettin' paid to paint your face... listen, I grew up in Ossining, New York, a nice little town by the Hudson, and nothin' ever interested me except being your usual high school big shot, which I was an' loved it, played all the sports and goofed around, always out on the street with the guys, everything was funny t'me.

Peter Falk

Acting is like golf: analysis leads to paralysis.

Peter Falk

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.

Peter Falk

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

Peter Falk

I did do my own stunts.

Peter Falk

In the beginning, when you're acting in amateur theater and off-Broadway, it was unheard of that anyone else would get your costume. And it was important to get a good costume. You put time into that.

Peter Falk

I thought actors were artists and that artists had to be European.

Peter Falk

To be totally sincere, I'd surely be a better actor today if I hadn't played Columbo all these years.

Peter Falk

I'm old fashioned. I really think you should know how to draw before you start painting. I use charcoal and graphite; I put a skylight in. In my house, I turned the garage into an art studio. So I'm awash in art studios.

Peter Falk

Initially, they wanted Columbo to wear a driving coat. I said: 'Are you kidding? He's not an English aristocrat.'

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

I'm just looking to get through the day.

Peter Falk

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!'

Peter Falk

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.

Peter Falk

The first time I ever spoke to John Cassavetes was at a Lakers game. I got up to go for a hot dog, and he was coming in the opposite direction. I don't know who said hello first, but we started talking, and it turned out that he went to high school with my first wife, Alice.

Peter Falk

The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85.

Peter Falk

The truth is, no one is like Columbo.

Peter Falk

My father's whole life was work. He had a retail store in Ossining, New York, and I mean, he was down there at 6:15 every morning. The store didn't open until 9, but he hadda be down there. That's all he knew.

Peter Falk

When I was growing up in Ossining, N.Y., playing pool with the guys, the thought that any one of us might become an actor was as far-fetched as being knighted by the queen of England.

Peter Falk

If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone.

Peter Falk

I hate to talk about typecasting, because being typecast as Columbo ain't cancer.

Peter Falk

Even the first year of 'Columbo,' 'Columbo' was Jesus Christ, No. 1, you know.

Peter Falk

I've worked with some terrific actors. The list of guys that came on the 'Columbo' show, I mean they were world-class actors from all over the world - Oskar Werner, Laurence Harvey, Donald Pleasence, you know... foreigners.

Peter Falk