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" Going to Hartford turned out to be the luckiest thing that ever happened to me. "
Peter Falk
Ever
Out
Me
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" 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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" The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85. "
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" 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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" I am older than everyone I ever knew. All my dogs are dead. Half a dozen cats, parakeets... all gone. "
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" I never turned a part down when they offered me money. "
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" Hartford had the Mark Twain Masquers, which was fantastic. They had been in business I don't know how many years. They knew how to build sets and sell tickets and put on a play. My day started at night. When I left the office, that's when my day began. "
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" When I was a kid growing up, you maybe secretly wanted to be an actor, but you never said. "
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" God didn't design anyone to be recognized by 2 billion people. "
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" I just keep working. "
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" I used to dread somebody saying, 'Whatsa matter with your eye?' "
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" 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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" I think people identify with Columbo because he is an average man. "
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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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High School
High
School
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" I still get fan mail for Columbo. "
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" When I go see a basketball game, I'm always in the front row. I always have a table at a restaurant; I never have trouble getting a taxi. "
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Basketball
Game
Restaurant
" 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. "
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Before
Character
Playing
" In 1958, I was shooting a movie in Florida, and I decided to go to Havana, Cuba, to see what it was like. "
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Like
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" I remember being amazed that actors had a union. I thought only coal miners had unions, or guys that worked in automobile plants. That's an indication of how naive I was. "
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Unions
Naive
Plants
" 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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World
Mean
You
" The female body is awesome. "
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Female
Awesome
Body
" 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.' "
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Man
Think
Reading
" In order to be totally spontaneous, you can't be too obsessed with accuracy, but if you're inaccurate in a drawing, it will look fake, and when you act, it will sound fake. You have to find miraculously some proper balance between the two, but there's no formula. "
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" I've been there a thousand years, and I never felt comfortable. Beverly Hills - when I first saw it, I thought they put it up this morning. You got to pack water to get to the drugstore. "
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