Peter Falk Quotes (16 Quotes)

I'm just looking to get through the day.

He sent the script over and I read it that first night, and about page 45 or 50, I called him up and said I'd do it. I didn't even finish it. You look for a part that you can score in. If I like this character and I can play it, the people are going to laugh or be interested, that's what you look for. They send me things that I wonder why they would send to anybody.

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

It's not proper to give someone a script and say, 'Listen, I'm going to give you a script but this means an awful lot to me because it's about my father and mother ... ' The person who reads the script -- they don't give a s--- about that, ... What does he care What does an actor care about when he reads a script He cares about whether he can score or not. He cares about whether or not the audience is going to identify with him or whether they're going to laugh or be compelled by the story. The reason I said yes is because I enjoyed it.

I did do my own stunts.

Usually, I get hired because I'm tall.

For my money, Patrick McGoohan is the quintessential Columbo adversary.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

I think Morris has a fantastic zest for life. He's hit upon something, and that is this central question 'I'm full of life now, but what do I see in the future A slow, steady disintegration into paralysis. Do I go out while I'm on top, or do I want to hang around, inch by inch, watching myself decay and have my family watch me decay' He approaches this subject with tremendous humor, and he's never depressing -- he's always way ahead of everybody else, and full of life. He's a fantastic character.

I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.

For some reason, his pool-hall education gets far more ink than his master's degree. And most important, he's part of a hardworking showbiz tradition that doesn't make films, it makes ''pictures.

The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85.

I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.

They know there's a gap, and if they're interested in finding out more about why they aren't more connected with their parents, they should see the movie,

It wasn't that we improvised it. We were going to shoot it, but I had the props in my hand, and I wanted to understand the props before we shot, so I asked Paul 'Is this the hook' and 'Where do you put the worm' that's when the director just said 'Shoot these guys' I didn't even know the camera was on, but it felt good

I saw a picture in the newspaper it was the art newspaper out of London of a young man on a ladder painting over the largest mural of the face of Saddam in Baghdad.