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" 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. "

Peter Falk

Think

You

Know

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Peter Falk

Bit

Network

" Columbo was never comfortable if somebody considered him unique or smart. "

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

" I'm secretly very stuffy. "

Peter Falk

Very

Secretly

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

Peter Falk

Who

Love

" You thought the stage, you thought Broadway: that was the pot at the end of the rainbow. The idea of being in Hollywood was like going to the Moon or Mars. "

" 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. "

" I just keep working. "

" I did do my own stunts. "

" My wife loves to get all dressed up and go out, and I'm this gloomy Virgo. It works because of the mutual recognition that we are two democratic narcissists. She does what she has to do, and I do what I have to do. We respect that. "

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

Peter Falk

I Am

Through

" 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

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

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

Peter Falk

Analysis

Golf

" Strange thing, this television. "

" The female body is awesome. "

" I still get fan mail for Columbo. "