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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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" It helps an actor an awful lot when he looks like the part. There's nothing more disconcerting, that makes you more anxious or more insecure, than when you don't look like who you're supposed to be. "

" 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. "

" The female body is awesome. "

" When I was growing up in Ossining, N.Y., playing pool with the guys, the thought that any one of us might become an actor was as far-fetched as being knighted by the queen of England. "

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

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

" I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows. "

" I still get fan mail for Columbo. "

" In the beginning, when you're acting in amateur theater and off-Broadway, it was unheard of that anyone else would get your costume. And it was important to get a good costume. You put time into that. "

" God didn't design anyone to be recognized by 2 billion people. "

" I love Chicago. It's one of the great cities. I'm crazy about the town. It reminds me of New York when it was at its best, the New York that used to be and is no more. I love the architecture, the old stuff and the new stuff. "

" To be a theater actor, I think you have to do plays all the time. "

" If you were brought up in the '40s, a kid in Ossining, New York, hanging out at the poolroom and stealing, how can you think, 'Here I am in Ossining. I, too, can be a movie star!' "

" I just keep working. "

" The entertainment industry is loaded with extraordinarily talented people. But the true, genuine originals, they're rare. "

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

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

" When I was a kid growing up, you maybe secretly wanted to be an actor, but you never said. "

" I once did a film in Russia because I wanted to see what the hell was going on there. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I did do my own stunts. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm not an ace at small talk. "

" I never turned a part down when they offered me money. "

" The truth is, no one is like Columbo. "

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

" The celebrity craze is a little much. But it's good for me, so you don't bite the hand that feeds you. "