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

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" 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. "

" In order to be totally spontaneous, you can't be too obsessed with accuracy, but if you're inaccurate in a drawing, it will look fake, and when you act, it will sound fake. You have to find miraculously some proper balance between the two, but there's no formula. "

" The female body is awesome. "

" 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'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. "

" Children ran up to me shouting, 'Columbo!' At first, it gave me great pleasure, but later, I said to myself that those children should have had their own heroes instead of admiring a cop from Los Angeles. "

" 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. "

" I think people identify with Columbo because he is an average man. "

" I'm not an ace at small talk. "

" They wouldn't take me in the navy because of my glass eye. So I joined the merchant navy, who allowed monocular crew if you worked in the kitchens. You're not wanted on deck or in the engine room with one eye, but you're good to fire up the ovens and cook hundreds of chops. "

" I like stories that grow, that have unpredictable layers. As opposed to Hollywood movies that start out with a lot of shock and noise and peter out into an unconvincing cliche. "

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

" I thought actors were artists and that artists had to be European. "

" 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.' "

" The whole thing was an actor's dream - getting a character that tickles you so much you can't wait to act as him. "

" 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. "

" I just keep working. "

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

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

" I did do my own stunts. "

" 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. "

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

" I used to have this idea that you can spend years in the movies and TV and then, at the drop of a hat, say 'Oh, I'll go back and do the theater.' "

" Most people think glamor is happiness. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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