117 Quotes by Peter Falk

Sometimes I was in school plays, but only when the kid they'd originally picked got sick and they asked me to substitute.

I was a street-guy villain. I was a street-corner villain. I was an illiterate villain. All rough edges.

I had no idea when I graduated from high school and then from graduate school what I wanted to do with my life. I had no idea that I was ever going to be an actor.

Going to Hartford turned out to be the luckiest thing that ever happened to me.

The celebrity craze is a little much. But it's good for me, so you don't bite the hand that feeds you.

I like stories that grow, that have unpredictable layers. As opposed to Hollywood movies that start out with a lot of shock and noise and peter out into an unconvincing cliche.

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.

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.