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I was a street-guy villain. I...

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

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I've been there a thousand ye...

I've been there a thousand years, and I never felt comfortable. Beverly Hills - when I first saw it, I thought they put it up this morning. You got to pack water to get to the drugstore.

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It helps an actor an awful lo...

It helps an actor an awful lot when he looks like the part. There's nothing more disconcerting, that makes you more anxious or more insecure, than when you don't look like who you're supposed to be.

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Good actors are always lookin...

Good actors are always looking for props. They're looking for behavior. It makes it a lot easier. You're not solely dependent of what's coming out of your mouth. You're also less self-conscious, less aware of the camera.

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You think you're in another c...

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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In order to be totally sponta...

In order to be totally spontaneous, you can't be too obsessed with accuracy, but if you're inaccurate in a drawing, it will look fake, and when you act, it will sound fake. You have to find miraculously some proper balance between the two, but there's no formula.

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Everybody wants to be a movie...

Everybody wants to be a movie star. I bet if you ask that guy would he like to be a movie star, he'd say, 'Sure.'

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Acting is like golf: analysis...

Acting is like golf: analysis leads to paralysis.

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I'm makin' a lotta dough, eve...

I'm makin' a lotta dough, everyone knows who you are, and who the hell cares whether you're typecast or not? Also, there's something wrong with complaining about being typecast in something you really enjoy doing.

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Oh, I was some efficiency exp...

Oh, I was some efficiency expert. On my first day, I couldn't find my own office in Hartford and wound up in the Post Office.

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I don't dwell on it. But I gu...

I don't dwell on it. But I guess everybody hopes that they go in their sleep and that it won't be long and painful.

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Usually, I get hired because ...

Usually, I get hired because I'm tall.

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When I was growing up in Ossi...

When I was growing up in Ossining, N.Y., playing pool with the guys, the thought that any one of us might become an actor was as far-fetched as being knighted by the queen of England.

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I watch practically no TV - a...

I watch practically no TV - ah, what the hell do I watch? Oh, I was for a long time addicted to CNN.

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What's the name of that famou...

What's the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minutes.

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I didn't become an actor unti...

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.

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Columbo was never comfortable...

Columbo was never comfortable if somebody considered him unique or smart.

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Children ran up to me shoutin...

Children ran up to me shouting, 'Columbo!' At first, it gave me great pleasure, but later, I said to myself that those children should have had their own heroes instead of admiring a cop from Los Angeles.

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The celebrity craze is a litt...

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

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Going to Hartford turned out ...

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

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