For my money, Patrick McGoohan is the quintessential Columbo adversary.

I’m just looking to get through the day.

My father’s whole life was work. He had a retail store in Ossining, New York, and I mean, he was down there at 6:15 every morning. The store didn’t open until 9, but he hadda...

The Gus Morgan Story.

I’m old fashioned. I really think you should know how to draw before you start painting. I use charcoal and graphite; I put a skylight in. In my house, I turned the garage into an...

It’s not proper to give someone a script and say, ‘Listen, I’m going to give you a script but this means an awful lot to me because it’s about my father and mother … ‘...

If people asked me whether I’m annoyed or tired or whatever adjective they use about being typecast, I look at them like they’re crazy,

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

It should be somehow special.

Turn the camera on!

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

Sometimes I see my father in me,

I’ve been able to play one of the richest characters in the history of television. Why would anybody think that I would be tired of hearing about it? The only thing I could say is...

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...

They know there’s a gap, and if they’re interested in finding out more about why they aren’t more connected with their parents, they should see the movie,

I never heard that before in my life. I loved it so much even though I was supposed to be mad at him. You see the look in my face, which is so delighted.

If your mind is at work, we’re in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we’ll come up with something original.

For some reason, his pool-hall education gets far more ink than his master’s degree. And most important, he’s part of a hardworking showbiz tradition that doesn’t make films, it makes ”pictures.

It was automatic. We were always on the same wavelength even before we started shooting.

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.

I saw a picture in the newspaper ? it was the art newspaper out of London ? of a young man on a ladder painting over the largest mural of the face of Saddam in...

The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I’d like to break 85.

Paul never told me anything about why he wrote it — he never mentioned his father and he never mentioned my father, … He never put me in a position in which I would feel...

I had two ambitions: One was to be in The Actors Studio, and the other was to walk into a bar where actors hung out, and everyone would know that I was a professional actor...

He sent the script over and I read it that first night, and about page 45 or 50, I called him up and said I’d do it. I didn’t even finish it. You look for...

I did do my own stunts.

It wasn’t that we improvised it. We were going to shoot it, but I had the props in my hand, and I wanted to understand the props before we shot, so I asked Paul ‘Is...

I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.

Usually, I get hired because I’m tall.