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

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" 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'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. "

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

" I got a regret: That I started acting so late. I was 27, and guys who start at 18 or so, there's this kinda continuity of friendships they form in the profession by startin' young, I've never had that. "

" 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!' "

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

" I did do my own stunts. "

" I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I'm secretly very stuffy. "

" 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've never worried about the grand concepts. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I didn't become an actor until I was an old man of 28 or 29. I declared to the world that I was an actor. Nobody heard me, but I did declare it. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" I was a street-guy villain. I was a street-corner villain. I was an illiterate villain. All rough edges. "

" 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.' "