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" Before we ever had a script or anything, I was attracted to the idea of playing a character that housed within himself two opposing traits. "
Peter Falk
Before
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" I am older than everyone I ever knew. All my dogs are dead. Half a dozen cats, parakeets... all gone. "
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" My wife loves to get all dressed up and go out, and I'm this gloomy Virgo. It works because of the mutual recognition that we are two democratic narcissists. She does what she has to do, and I do what I have to do. We respect that. "
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" I had no idea when I graduated from high school and then from graduate school what I wanted to do with my life. I had no idea that I was ever going to be an actor. "
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" 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. "
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