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The truth is, no one is like Columbo.

I think people identify with Columbo because he is an average man.

I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.

I've been asked a few thousand times how much of Columbo is Falk and vice versa.

Initially, they wanted Columbo to wear a driving coat. I said: 'Are you kidding? He's not an English aristocrat.'

To be totally sincere, I'd surely be a better actor today if I hadn't played Columbo all these years.

Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?

There isn't an Eskimo who doesn't love 'Columbo.'

I still get fan mail for Columbo.