Quotes from Peter Falk

I never turned a part down when they offered me money.

I didn't become an actor until I was an old man of 28 or 29. I declared to the world that I was an actor. Nobody heard me, but I did declare it.

Certainly, you envy the guys that have done all kinds of things, a variety of good scripts and good directors. Then again, having worked with Cassavetes has satisfied a big part of that.

I did do my own stunts.

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

I wanted to become an actor, but I didn't want to admit it.

I do figure every angle of a guy I'm acting - but not consciously 'til afterward.

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

I used to dread somebody saying, 'Whatsa matter with your eye?'

I thought actors were artists and that artists had to be European.

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

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.

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

Since the invention of the kiss there have been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind. The End." The Princess Bride (1987) – Grandpa (Peter Falk)

Sometimes kindness is wiser than truth

My idea of heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing. ? Peter Falk