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" To be a theater actor, I think you have to do plays all the time. "

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" My idea of Heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing. "

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

" I still get fan mail for Columbo. "

" Strange thing, this television. "

" I don't dwell on it. But I guess everybody hopes that they go in their sleep and that it won't be long and painful. "

" Most people think glamor is happiness. "

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

" Initially, they wanted Columbo to wear a driving coat. I said: 'Are you kidding? He's not an English aristocrat.' "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The first time I ever spoke to John Cassavetes was at a Lakers game. I got up to go for a hot dog, and he was coming in the opposite direction. I don't know who said hello first, but we started talking, and it turned out that he went to high school with my first wife, Alice. "

" 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. "

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

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

" When I was a kid growing up, you maybe secretly wanted to be an actor, but you never said. "

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

" 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. "

" I love Chicago. It's one of the great cities. I'm crazy about the town. It reminds me of New York when it was at its best, the New York that used to be and is no more. I love the architecture, the old stuff and the new stuff. "

" I just keep working. "

" I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately. "

" 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 truth is, no one is like Columbo. "

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

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

" 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. "