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" What wouldn't have happened to me if I hadn't ended up in Hartford, Connecticut. "

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" 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 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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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. "

" 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 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.' "

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