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

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

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

" 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. "

" If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Even the first year of 'Columbo,' 'Columbo' was Jesus Christ, No. 1, you know. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The female body is awesome. "

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

" I'm secretly very stuffy. "

" 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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" 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. "

" When I was a kid, the idea of gettin' paid to paint your face... listen, I grew up in Ossining, New York, a nice little town by the Hudson, and nothin' ever interested me except being your usual high school big shot, which I was an' loved it, played all the sports and goofed around, always out on the street with the guys, everything was funny t'me. "

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

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

" I've never worried about the grand concepts. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

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