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

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" I used to dread somebody saying, 'Whatsa matter with your eye?' "

" 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. "

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

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

" When I was young, I was looking for people to look up to - role models I could respect. "

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

" Good actors are always looking for props. They're looking for behavior. It makes it a lot easier. You're not solely dependent of what's coming out of your mouth. You're also less self-conscious, less aware of the camera. "

" 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. "

" Most people think glamor is happiness. "

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

" Your instincts for what's dramatic are the same whether you're working on a drawing or on a script. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" I do figure every angle of a guy I'm acting - but not consciously 'til afterward. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I just keep working. "

" 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. "