Peter Falk Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 16, 1927 - June 23, 2011

Topics

BalanceFakeDrawingYouLookFind

A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.

Joan Lunden

PositiveWorkAttitudeLearnHow

This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.

Matt LeBlanc

TomorrowMeDarkActingNailsOut

People don't say 'Zounds!' anymore.

Sloan Wilson

PeopleSayAnymore

Earning money is not a sin, and the bottom line is growth.

Rohit Shetty

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It takes me about three years to write a book. They're very complex, and they take a lot of research, but also because the more popular your books get, the more popular you get, and people want to haul you off and look at you.

Diana Gabaldon

PeopleMeResearchBookYouLook

In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren't educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a 'Reader's Digest' condensed book. Can you imagine?

Dawn Steel

FamilyEducationPastSchoolParents

You live in intimate association with bacteria, and you couldn't survive without them.

Bonnie Bassler

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When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.

Pete Hamill

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I am not temperamental. I just know what I want and if I don't have it, I try to get it.

Paulette Goddard

I AmKnowWantTryGetJust

I come from a place where we feel like we're not represented in the national media.

Shepard Smith

FeelMediaPlaceWhereComeLike

What crushed my soul was hanging out with bitter, desperate comics backstage. They're a different breed than the bitter yet eager psyches in the wings of an improv theatre. Struggling stand-ups have externalized self-loathing into an art form. They're a hunching, quaking, unshaven lot.

Scott Adsit

ArtSoulTheatreMy SoulWingsOut

Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.

Martin Lewis Perl

WorkFatherMotherSchoolPrinting

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