Peter Falk Quotes

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.

I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

The world of the stage and the performance on the stage usually does not tend to translate very well - it doesn't tend to hold very well - once cameras are on it; it's not like it's terrible or embarrassing or bad anything, but, I, as an actor, would perform a role differently for an audience than I would for just cameras.

I started in community theater at 7 years old. I loved being on stage and performing. At the time, I didn't correlate that the stuff I was doing on stage was the same thing that I was watching in my favorite films.

I think I'm becoming more relaxed in front of a camera. I suppose I'll always feel slightly more at home on stage. It's more of an actor's medium. You are your own editor, nobody else is choosing what is being seen of you.

My first thought about acting, growing up here in New York, was theater, and I feel like I need to force myself to go get my ass kicked in a rehearsal room and do one of those plays at some point.

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

I did great things in the theater. I did some nice roles, 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' or 'La Vie en Rose.' And I love my role in 'Frantic.'

I wasn't a child who wanted to be an actor.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.

I never thought about acting before I started modeling, but since then I've been in short films and music videos, and I got interested. It felt natural to switch over.

I've always felt like I've been in good shows.

I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York.

I have to say, speaking from experience, just because an actor starts out in a role in the workshop, they won't necessarily play it when it goes to Broadway.

I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television, but I don't think I really connected at a young age that that was acting, that that was part of the profession.

I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.

I had always wanted to be an actress. I went to summer theater camp from kindergarten on up until high school, and always had the leads in all the plays - even though they were at the YMCA - but it was something I always wanted to do.

I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'