Peter Falk Quotes

#1. I remember once in high school the umpire called me out at third base when I was sure I was safe. I got so mad I took out my glass eye, handed it to him and said, Try this. I got such a laugh you wouldnt believe.

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#2. I'm just looking to get through the day.

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#3. I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.

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

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

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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.

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#9. I could not chop down a tree if my life depended on it.

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#10. Ill smoke anything anybody gives me, Im not particular.

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#11. 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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#12. I do share with the lieutenant (Columbo) one very pronounced part of his personality - he loves to talk about his wife. You can't shut him up. I have the same problem. I can tell Shera stories till three in the morning. Shera is my wife.

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#13. 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.

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#14. I did do my own stunts.

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#15. 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.

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#16. Usually, I get hired because I'm tall.

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

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