Top 31 Peter Falk Quotes
#1. Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him I would stay in Government, be honored to, but not with the Air Force.
Stuart Symington
#2. I do want you. More than my next breath.
Katie Reus
#3. A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.
Wyndham Lewis
#4. It's not the crime per se that makes places unhappy. It's the creeping sense of fear that permeates everyone's lives, even those who have never been - and probably never will be - victims of crime.
Eric Weiner
#5. 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.
Peter Falk
#6. I'm just looking to get through the day.
Peter Falk
#7. We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.
Paul Reiser
#8. I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.
Peter Falk
#9. You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!
Peter Falk
#10. 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
#11. The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85.
Peter Falk
#12. 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
#13. 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.
Peter Falk
#14. I could not chop down a tree if my life depended on it.
Peter Falk
#15. Ill smoke anything anybody gives me, Im not particular.
Peter Falk
#16. Peter Falk and Denis Leary today walked into a Starbucks and shot 27 people, without any announcement whatsoever.
Denis Leary
#17. 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
#18. I love Dr. King, but violence might be necessary;
Cause when you live on MLK and it gets very scary,
You might have to pull your AK, send one to the cemetery.
Killer Mike
#19. 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.
Peter Falk
#20. Nothing would make me happier if Peter Falk would finally win his Oscar for this. Not just as the writer but as a fan and a friend. It would be so great.
Paul Reiser
#21. 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
#22. Like "love," "hope" is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.
Jim Butcher
#23. Every time I see Peter Falk in the movie I think that would be great. We'd be fun together.
Paul Reiser
#25. 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
#26. In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me.
Paul Reiser
#27. I don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it.
Rodney Dangerfield
#28. Usually, I get hired because I'm tall.
Peter Falk
#29. One person who has taught me a lot and inspired me a lot was Peter Falk. I was fortunate enough to have worked with him in this movie called 'Vig.' He brought my work to a place where it literally shouldn't have been for another two or three years.
Freddie Prinze Jr.
#30. I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.
Peter Falk
#31. woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and
Virginia Woolf
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