American - Actor | September 16, 1927 - June 23, 2011
Actors know one thing: If you're left just with words, you're in trouble.
Peter Falk
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I once did a film in Russia because I wanted to see what the hell was going on there.
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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.
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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.
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Acting is like golf: analysis leads to paralysis.
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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.
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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.
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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!'
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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.'
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Most people think glamor is happiness.
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