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I did do my own stunts.
I'm secretly very stuffy.
The female body is awesome.
I'm not an ace at small talk.
Strange thing, this television.
I still get fan mail for Columbo.
The truth is, no one is like Columbo.
Usually, I get hired because I`m tall.
Usually, I get hired because I'm tall.
I'm just looking to get through the day.
I've never worried about the grand concepts.
Acting is like golf: analysis leads to paralysis.
I never turned a part down when they offered me money.
I could not chop down a tree if my life depended on it.
Ill smoke anything anybody gives me, Im not particular.
I wanted to become an actor, but I didn't want to admit it.
God didn't design anyone to be recognized by 2 billion people.
I used to dread somebody saying, 'Whatsa matter with your eye?'
I think people identify with Columbo because he is an average man.
I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.
The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85.
You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!
Even the first year of 'Columbo,' 'Columbo' was Jesus Christ, No. 1, you know.
Going to Hartford turned out to be the luckiest thing that ever happened to me.
I've been asked a few thousand times how much of Columbo is Falk and vice versa.
What wouldn't have happened to me if I hadn't ended up in Hartford, Connecticut.
I do figure every angle of a guy I'm acting - but not consciously 'til afterward.
I hate to talk about typecasting, because being typecast as Columbo ain't cancer.
Along came a police lieutenant named Columbo, and my life would never be the same.
I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.
If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone.
I once did a film in Russia because I wanted to see what the hell was going on there.
When I was young, I was looking for people to look up to - role models I could respect.
When I was a kid growing up, you maybe secretly wanted to be an actor, but you never said.
I lose things. I am preoccupied. I am misty. Eyeglasses? I go through eyeglasses like tissue.
My idea of Heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing.
Your instincts for what's dramatic are the same whether you're working on a drawing or on a script.
I watch practically no TV - ah, what the hell do I watch? Oh, I was for a long time addicted to CNN.
What's the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minutes.
To be totally sincere, I'd surely be a better actor today if I hadn't played Columbo all these years.
The celebrity craze is a little much. But it's good for me, so you don't bite the hand that feeds you.
I was a street-guy villain. I was a street-corner villain. I was an illiterate villain. All rough edges.
In 1958, I was shooting a movie in Florida, and I decided to go to Havana, Cuba, to see what it was like.
The whole thing was an actor's dream - getting a character that tickles you so much you can't wait to act as him.
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.'
Initially, they wanted Columbo to wear a driving coat. I said: 'Are you kidding? He's not an English aristocrat.'
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.
There's a bit of a problem. The script that I like, the network doesn't like. The script that they like, I don't like.
The entertainment industry is loaded with extraordinarily talented people. But the true, genuine originals, they're rare.
Sometimes I was in school plays, but only when the kid they'd originally picked got sick and they asked me to substitute.