American - Actor | September 16, 1927 - June 23, 2011
I'm secretly very stuffy.
Peter Falk
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I've been asked a few thousand times how much of Columbo is Falk and vice versa.
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The truth is, no one is like Columbo.
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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.
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I hate to talk about typecasting, because being typecast as Columbo ain't cancer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Initially, they wanted Columbo to wear a driving coat. I said: 'Are you kidding? He's not an English aristocrat.'
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I never turned a part down when they offered me money.
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Along came a police lieutenant named Columbo, and my life would never be the same.
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Your instincts for what's dramatic are the same whether you're working on a drawing or on a script.
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