Quotes by Peter Falk - Page 2

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 / Actor
My Own
Office
Post Office
Post
Wound
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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.
Peter Falk / Actor
Eye
Fake
Became
Call
Joke
Hand
Neighbourhood
Ruled
Umpire
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There were no artists in Ossining, which was the home of Sing Sing prison. Most of the parents of the guys I knew were guards there.
Peter Falk / Actor
Guards
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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.
Peter Falk / Actor
Basketball
Taxi
Front
Restaurant
Row
Table
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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.
Peter Falk / Actor
Opposing
Traits
Attracted
Script
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Sure, I miss some things about the stage. The thing I like is the immediacy. But then I complain, 'I gotta do the same part for six months.'
Peter Falk / Actor
Immediacy
Complain
Gotta
Some Things
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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 / Actor
Old Man
Man World Me
Declare
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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.'
Peter Falk / Actor
Drop
Hat
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It depends how lenient you are with your definition of artist. If you're going to include those who tap dance at the high school recital, then maybe I am.
Peter Falk / Actor
Dance
Artist
Depends
High School
Lenient
Tap
Definition
High
Include
Maybe
Recital
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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.
Peter Falk / Actor
Broadway
Hollywood
Mars
Moon
Pot
Rainbow
To The Moon
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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.
Peter Falk / Actor
Graduate School
No Idea
Life My Life School
Graduate
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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.
Peter Falk / Actor
Amazed
Automobile
Coal
Indication
Miners
Plants
Union
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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 / Actor
Date
Cheap
Laughs
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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 / Actor
Hollywood Movies
Layers
Noise
Peter
Shock
Unpredictable
Opposed
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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.
Peter Falk / Actor
Cliche
Danger
Mind
Reproducing
Minds
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If you were brought up in the '40s, a kid in Ossining, New York, hanging out at the poolroom and stealing, how can you think, 'Here I am in Ossining. I, too, can be a movie star!'
Peter Falk / Actor
Movie Star
Stealing
Hanging
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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.
Peter Falk / Actor
England
Growing Up
Might
Pool
Actor
Far-Fetched
Guys
Queen
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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.
Peter Falk / Actor
Envy
Satisfied
Scripts
Variety
Big Part
Certainly
Good Scripts
Guys
Worked
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I've been there a thousand years, and I never felt comfortable. Beverly Hills - when I first saw it, I thought they put it up this morning. You got to pack water to get to the drugstore.
Peter Falk / Actor
Beverly Hills
Comfortable
Hills
Thousand
Thousand Years
Water
Beverly
Drugstore
Pack
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If I'm a guy reading a newspaper, and I hear this actor who I know gets great seats at basketball games, and he's complaining about being typecast, I think, 'Hey man, count your blessings.'
Peter Falk / Actor
Basketball
Complaining
Hey
Seats
Great Man Your
Blessings
Count
Typecast
Newspaper
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I had two ambitions: One was to be in The Actors Studio, and the other was to walk into a bar where actors hung out, and everyone would know that I was a professional actor and I would be accepted.
Peter Falk / Actor
Accepted
Ambition
Hung
Bar
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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 / Actor
Anxious
Insecure
Awful Lot
Disconcerting
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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 / Actor
Unheard
Time Good Your
Amateur
Anyone Else
Time Good Beginning
Costume
In The Beginning
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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.
Peter Falk / Actor
Acting
Continuity
Late
Profession
Regret
Friendships
Guys
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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.
Peter Falk / Actor
Admiring
Cop
Los Angeles
Pleasure
Ran
Shouting
Great Myself Me
Heroes
Angeles
Gave
Great Pleasure
Instead
Los
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You think you're in another civilization, another time, and then you see antennas coming out of these hovels, and your mouth falls open when you see the descendants of the Incas shouting 'Columbo! Columbo!'
Peter Falk / Actor
Another Time
Descendants
Shouting
Time Your See
Mouth
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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.
Peter Falk / Actor
Rehearsal
Blocking
Marks
Reversed
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I don't like getting up in the morning, getting in a car, driving on a freeway, and stopping at a gate where two guards are standing there, then walk into a studio that looks like a bunch of airplane hangars.
Peter Falk / Actor
Car
Airplane
Bunch
Looks
Standing
Stopping
Freeway
Gate
Guards
Walk
Studio
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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.
Peter Falk / Actor
Retail
Life Work Morning
Store
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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 / Actor
Complaining
Dough
Cares
Typecast
Makin
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I remember once in high school the umpire called me out at third base when I was sure I was safe. I got so mad I took out my glass eye, handed it to him and said, 'Try this.' I got such a laugh you wouldn't believe.
Peter Falk / Actor
Believe
Eye
School
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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.
Peter Falk / Actor
Charcoal
Garage
House
Painting
Draw
Studio
Turned
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Good actors are always looking for props. They're looking for behavior. It makes it a lot easier. You're not solely dependent of what's coming out of your mouth. You're also less self-conscious, less aware of the camera.
Peter Falk / Actor
Behavior
Dependent
Easier
Good Actors
Props
Self Conscious
Good Always Your
Aware
Camera
Mouth
Solely
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I've worked with some terrific actors. The list of guys that came on the 'Columbo' show, I mean they were world-class actors from all over the world - Oskar Werner, Laurence Harvey, Donald Pleasence, you know... foreigners.
Peter Falk / Actor
Foreigners
Harvey
Terrific
World Class
Donald
Laurence
List
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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.
Peter Falk / Actor
Architecture
Chicago
Cities
New Stuff
Old Stuff
Love Best Great
Reminds
York
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My wife loves to get all dressed up and go out, and I'm this gloomy Virgo. It works because of the mutual recognition that we are two democratic narcissists. She does what she has to do, and I do what I have to do. We respect that.
Peter Falk / Actor
Gloomy
Mutual
Recognition
Dressed
Virgo
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I do share with the lieutenant (Columbo) one very pronounced part of his personality - he loves to talk about his wife. You can't shut him up. I have the same problem. I can tell Shera stories till three in the morning. Shera is my wife.
Peter Falk / Actor
Morning
Personality
Wife
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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.
Peter Falk / Actor
Fantastic
Mark
Night
Office
Tickets
Build
Business Day Night
Began
Sell
Sets
Twain
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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.
Peter Falk / Actor
Accuracy
Balance
Drawing
Fake
Spontaneous
Totally
Look Will Find
Inaccurate
Miraculously
Proper
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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.
Peter Falk / Actor
Crew
Deck
Eye
Fire
Navy
Allowed
Cook
Chops
Engine
Glass
Hundreds
Joined
Merchant
Room
Worked
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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.
Peter Falk / Actor
Hello
Hot Dog
Lakers
Opposite
Alice
Opposite Direction
Spoke
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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 / Actor
New York
Sports
High School
Paid
Usual
Played
Shot
Big Shot
Interested
Except
Street
Gettin
Guys
Hudson
Little Town
Nothin
York
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