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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I had two ambitions: One was to be in The Actors Studio, and the other was to walk into a bar where actors hung out, and everyone would know that I was a professional actor and I would be accepted. "

" If I'm a guy reading a newspaper, and I hear this actor who I know gets great seats at basketball games, and he's complaining about being typecast, I think, 'Hey man, count your blessings.' "

" The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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'm not an ace at small talk. "

" I'm secretly very stuffy. "

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

" I did do my own stunts. "

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

" Certainly, you envy the guys that have done all kinds of things, a variety of good scripts and good directors. Then again, having worked with Cassavetes has satisfied a big part of that. "

" The female body is awesome. "

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

" 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 don't like getting up in the morning, getting in a car, driving on a freeway, and stopping at a gate where two guards are standing there, then walk into a studio that looks like a bunch of airplane hangars. "

" 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. "