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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. "

Peter Falk

High School

High

School

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" I am older than everyone I ever knew. All my dogs are dead. Half a dozen cats, parakeets... all gone. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

" What wouldn't have happened to me if I hadn't ended up in Hartford, Connecticut. "

Peter Falk

Happened

Connecticut

" I thought actors were artists and that artists had to be European. "

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

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

" I'm makin' a lotta dough, everyone knows who you are, and who the hell cares whether you're typecast or not? Also, there's something wrong with complaining about being typecast in something you really enjoy doing. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I just keep working. "

" 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.' "

Peter Falk

Complain

Same

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

Peter Falk

Ever

Out

" Sometimes I was in school plays, but only when the kid they'd originally picked got sick and they asked me to substitute. "

" I don't dwell on it. But I guess everybody hopes that they go in their sleep and that it won't be long and painful. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It depends how lenient you are with your definition of artist. If you're going to include those who tap dance at the high school recital, then maybe I am. "

" Everybody wants to be a movie star. I bet if you ask that guy would he like to be a movie star, he'd say, 'Sure.' "

Peter Falk

Say

Ask

" You think you're in another civilization, another time, and then you see antennas coming out of these hovels, and your mouth falls open when you see the descendants of the Incas shouting 'Columbo! Columbo!' "

" 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. "

" I used to have this idea that you can spend years in the movies and TV and then, at the drop of a hat, say 'Oh, I'll go back and do the theater.' "

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Movies

Say

" Acting is like golf: analysis leads to paralysis. "

Peter Falk

Analysis

Golf

" 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. "