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

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" There isn't an Eskimo who doesn't love 'Columbo.' "

" I still get fan mail for Columbo. "

" I am older than everyone I ever knew. All my dogs are dead. Half a dozen cats, parakeets... all gone. "

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

" It depends how lenient you are with your definition of artist. If you're going to include those who tap dance at the high school recital, then maybe I am. "

" It became the joke of the neighbourhood. If the umpire ruled me out on a bad call, I'd take the fake eye out and hand it to him. "

" You think you're in another civilization, another time, and then you see antennas coming out of these hovels, and your mouth falls open when you see the descendants of the Incas shouting 'Columbo! Columbo!' "

" I'm just looking to get through the day. "

" If I'm a guy reading a newspaper, and I hear this actor who I know gets great seats at basketball games, and he's complaining about being typecast, I think, 'Hey man, count your blessings.' "

" Columbo was never comfortable if somebody considered him unique or smart. "

" There were no artists in Ossining, which was the home of Sing Sing prison. Most of the parents of the guys I knew were guards there. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I just keep working. "

" Going to Hartford turned out to be the luckiest thing that ever happened to me. "

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

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

" My idea of Heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing. "

" I watch practically no TV - ah, what the hell do I watch? Oh, I was for a long time addicted to CNN. "

" 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.' "

" Children ran up to me shouting, 'Columbo!' At first, it gave me great pleasure, but later, I said to myself that those children should have had their own heroes instead of admiring a cop from Los Angeles. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I used to dread somebody saying, 'Whatsa matter with your eye?' "

" Your instincts for what's dramatic are the same whether you're working on a drawing or on a script. "

" I'm makin' a lotta dough, everyone knows who you are, and who the hell cares whether you're typecast or not? Also, there's something wrong with complaining about being typecast in something you really enjoy doing. "

" 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. "

" I did do my own stunts. "