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" When I go see a basketball game, I'm always in the front row. I always have a table at a restaurant; I never have trouble getting a taxi. "

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

" 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 did do my own stunts. "

" 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. "

" I'm makin' a lotta dough, everyone knows who you are, and who the hell cares whether you're typecast or not? Also, there's something wrong with complaining about being typecast in something you really enjoy doing. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Most people think glamor is happiness. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone. "

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

" 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. "

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

" God didn't design anyone to be recognized by 2 billion people. "

" In the theater, you didn't have any marks. Your instincts in rehearsal told you what the blocking was. On film, they reversed it. They decided ahead of time what your instincts were, before you even arrived. "

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

" 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. "