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Peter Falk


American
September 16, 1927
Actor
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Strange thing, this television.


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


Peter Falk
Tags: Had Were Thought
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I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.


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


Peter Falk
Tags: Like Things Go
The entertainment industry is loaded with extraordinarily talented people. But the true, genuine originals, they're rare.
Peter Falk
To be totally sincere, I'd surely be a better actor today if I hadn't played Columbo all these years.
Peter Falk
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When I was a kid growing up, you maybe secretly wanted to be an actor, but you never said.


Peter Falk
Tags: You Up Never
In 1958, I was shooting a movie in Florida, and I decided to go to Havana, Cuba, to see what it was like.
Peter Falk
Tags: Like Go See
The celebrity craze is a little much. But it's good for me, so you don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Peter Falk
Tags: Good You Me
Sometimes I was in school plays, but only when the kid they'd originally picked got sick and they asked me to substitute.
Peter Falk
Tags: Me Only Got
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.
Peter Falk
Tags: Up Some First
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.
Peter Falk
Tags: Me World Man
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.
Peter Falk
Tags: Movies Like Out
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.
Peter Falk
Tags: Work Out Up
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.
Peter Falk
Tags: You About Who
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
Tags: Time Good You
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.
Peter Falk
Tags: You Like Who
I used to take girls out on a date to Night Court. And I'll tell you, most girls, they got a kick out of going to Night Court. 'Cause you get a lot of laughs... and it's cheap.
Peter Falk
Tags: You Get Out
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.
Peter Falk
Tags: Funny Sports Me