Columbo Quotes

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

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.

Columbo's deliberately irritating questioning technique - 'just one more thing' - is designed to produce discomfort rather than to elicit information.

I think people identify with Columbo because he is an average man.

Along came a police lieutenant named Columbo, and my life would never be the same.

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

Every time I see Peter Falk in the movie I think that would be great. We'd be fun together.

I've worked with some terrific actors. The list of guys that came on the 'Columbo' show, I mean they were world-class actors from all over the world - Oskar Werner, Laurence Harvey, Donald Pleasence, you know... foreigners.

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

I hate to talk about typecasting, because being typecast as Columbo ain't cancer.

There's not enough psychedelic stuff on TV. I want the world to be a bit weirder than it is. I hate reality, so I hate reality TV. But I love Columbo.

Initially, they wanted Columbo to wear a driving coat. I said: 'Are you kidding? He's not an English aristocrat.'

I wish I could be Peter Falk.

To be totally sincere, I'd surely be a better actor today if I hadn't played Columbo all these years.

I've been asked a few thousand times how much of Columbo is Falk and vice versa.

We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.

I still get fan mail for Columbo.

The truth is, no one is like Columbo.

I've had the chance to work with Christopher Plummer, one of the great stage and film actors, a couple of times, including on 'Prototype,' the first TV movie I ever did. It was science fiction in the Ray Bradbury sense, written by the famous team who created Columbo, Levinson, and Link.

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.

My dad [...] sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.'