A Quote by Peter Falk

The truth is, no one is like Columbo.

Peter Falk

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Peter Falk
American - Actor
September 16, 1927 - June 23, 2011

In the classic 70s episodes, Columbo is rarely seen on his own. We typically do not see Columbo 'for himself,' only for the criminal, leaving the possibility that the entire Columbo persona - his shambling manner, his absent mindedness, even his references to his wife - may all be a performance designed to disarm the murderer.

Mark Fisher

Even the first year of 'Columbo,' 'Columbo' was Jesus Christ, No. 1, you know.

Peter Falk

There was that moment of, "Oh, my parents are watching Columbo and I hate it" to "No, I love this show, too." And I feel like, for me, that was around 11 or 12, where I could actually join my parents in their viewing and wasn't so irritated that they were always watching Columbo.

June Diane Raphael

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!'

Peter Falk

Of course, I'm not saying that news interviews can't be adversarial. Sometimes, you have to be nasty Columbo or we'd never get to the truth.

Graham Linehan

I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.

Octavia Spencer

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Richard M. Nixon

There isn't an Eskimo who doesn't love 'Columbo.'

Peter Falk

I still get fan mail for Columbo.

Peter Falk

Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard, and Columbo. The Book of Woe is a profound, and profoundly entertaining, riff on malady, power, and truth. This book is for those of us (i.e. all of us) who've ever wondered what it means, and what's at stake, when we try to distinguish the suffering of the ill from the suffering of the human.