Best quotes by Peter Falk on Me

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• ‟ 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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• ‟ They wouldn't take me in the navy because of my glass eye. So I joined the merchant navy, who allowed monocular crew if you worked in the kitchens. You're not wanted on deck or in the engine room with one eye, but you're good to fire up the ovens and cook hundreds of chops.

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

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• ‟ It became the joke of the neighbourhood. If the umpire ruled me out on a bad call, I'd take the fake eye out and hand it to him.

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

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

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