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

~Peter Falk

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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.

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

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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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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.

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

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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.

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In the beginning, when you're acting in amateur theater and off-Broadway, it was unheard of that anyone else would get your costume. And it was important to get a good costume. You put time into that.

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I used to have this idea that you can spend years in the movies and TV and then, at the drop of a hat, say 'Oh, I'll go back and do the theater.'

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: September 16th, 1927

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