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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. "

Peter Falk

Play

Night

Build

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

Peter Falk

Who

Love

" 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. "

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

" I used to take girls out on a date to Night Court. And I'll tell you, most girls, they got a kick out of going to Night Court. 'Cause you get a lot of laughs... and it's cheap. "

" I lose things. I am preoccupied. I am misty. Eyeglasses? I go through eyeglasses like tissue. "

Peter Falk

I Am

Through

" I've been asked a few thousand times how much of Columbo is Falk and vice versa. "

" Strange thing, this television. "

" I wanted to become an actor, but I didn't want to admit it. "

" Along came a police lieutenant named Columbo, and my life would never be the same. "

" I just keep working. "

" What's the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minutes. "

" I did do my own stunts. "

" I think people identify with Columbo because he is an average man. "

Peter Falk

Think

People

" I don't like getting up in the morning, getting in a car, driving on a freeway, and stopping at a gate where two guards are standing there, then walk into a studio that looks like a bunch of airplane hangars. "

" They wouldn't take me in the navy because of my glass eye. So I joined the merchant navy, who allowed monocular crew if you worked in the kitchens. You're not wanted on deck or in the engine room with one eye, but you're good to fire up the ovens and cook hundreds of chops. "

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

" Oh, I was some efficiency expert. On my first day, I couldn't find my own office in Hartford and wound up in the Post Office. "

" In 1958, I was shooting a movie in Florida, and I decided to go to Havana, Cuba, to see what it was like. "

Peter Falk

Shooting

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

" Usually, I get hired because I'm tall. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm secretly very stuffy. "

Peter Falk

Very

Secretly

" 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. "

Peter Falk

Him

Hand

" In the theater, you didn't have any marks. Your instincts in rehearsal told you what the blocking was. On film, they reversed it. They decided ahead of time what your instincts were, before you even arrived. "

" 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. "

" I still get fan mail for Columbo. "