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.
From Peter Falk
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.
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.'
To be a theater actor, I think you have to do plays all the time.
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.'
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.
I think people identify with Columbo because he is an average man.
I'm not an ace at small talk.
I used to dread somebody saying, 'Whatsa matter with your eye?'
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!'
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