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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. "

Peter Falk

Your

Acting

Beginning

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

" The celebrity craze is a little much. But it's good for me, so you don't bite the hand that feeds you. "

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You

Celebrity

" I'm just looking to get through the day. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The female body is awesome. "

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

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Who

Love

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

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

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

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

" I've been there a thousand years, and I never felt comfortable. Beverly Hills - when I first saw it, I thought they put it up this morning. You got to pack water to get to the drugstore. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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'm secretly very stuffy. "

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Very

Secretly

" Strange thing, this television. "

" I remember being amazed that actors had a union. I thought only coal miners had unions, or guys that worked in automobile plants. That's an indication of how naive I was. "