Peter Falk quotes
“The entertainment industry is loaded with extraordinarily talented people. But the true, genuine originals, they're rare.”
- From the movie: The Cheap Detective
“- Mrs. Montenegro: Mr. Peckinpaugh, I think I have some information regarding the untimely death of your late, deceased, murdered partner.
- Lou Peckinpaugh: Who is this?
- Mrs. Montenegro: As the Chinese say, never mind. We must be careful; I'm being watched. Can we meet in your office in fifteen minutes?
- Lou Peckinpaugh: All right. What time...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The In-Laws
“What do you think will happen when they run off this dough... and there's trillions of extra dollars, francs, and marks floating around? You've got a collapse of confidence in the currency. People are gonna panic. There's gonna be gold riots, atonal music... political chaos, mass suicide. Right? It's Germany before Hitler. You can see that....” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: The In-Laws
“- Sheldon Kornpett: You were involved in the Bay of Pigs?
- Vince Ricardo: Involved? That was my idea.” - From the movie: ... All the Marbles
“- Harry Sears: Nobody hungry? I'm buyin'. Hey, I'm not kiddin' around. I'm really buyin'.
- Iris: Real food? Or that junk garbage we have every night?
- Harry Sears: No, no... Five blocks up the road there's a new Fatburger. It's fantastic.
- Molly: For once, can't we eat in a place with a table cloth?
- Harry Sears: It's ok with me but those...” (continue)(continue reading) “God didn't design anyone to be recognized by 2 billion people.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“To be totally sincere, I'd surely be a better actor today if I hadn't played Columbo all these years.”
“I've never worried about the grand concepts.”
“I thought actors were artists and that artists had to be European.”
“When I was young, I was looking for people to look up to - role models I could respect.”
- From the movie: Tune in Tomorrow...
“Eat - or be eaten!”
- From the movie: The Cheap Detective
“- Marcel: I'm sorry, I thought you were alone.
- Lou Peckinpaugh: I tried it that way. It's not as much fun alone.” - From the movie: The Cheap Detective
“- Jezebel Dezire: Won't you join me in a little drinkie? What's your pleasure?
- Lou Peckinpaugh: Uh, what you got there looks good.
- Jezebel Dezire: I know... but I thought you'd like a little drink first.” - From the movie: The Cheap Detective
“- Betty DeBoop: You'll be back.
- Lou Peckinpaugh: What makes you think so?
- Betty DeBoop: You forgot the glasses.” - From the movie: Tune in Tomorrow...
- From the movie: The In-Laws
“Are you interested in joining? The benefits are terrific. The trick is not to get killed. That's really the key to the benefit program.”
- From the movie: The Cheap Detective
- From the movie: The Cheap Detective
“- Lou Peckinpaugh: Suddenly it all seems as though it was yesterday. I stood in that train station, I waited for you for over six hours. Then when your letter came, it started to rain. And I opened it, and the ink ran all over the page. The most important letter of my life... I still don't know what the hell it said!
- Marlene DuChard: It said: ...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: ... All the Marbles
“- Akron Doctor: She's as healthy as a horse.
- Harry Sears: And you should know. He used to be the official vet at Pimlico. You're way ahead. You're lucky he didn't shoot you.” - From the movie: The Cheap Detective
“- Paul DuChard: Anything wrong?
- Lou Peckinpaugh: Oh, no, no. No, it's, uh, my mistake here, uh. For a second here I thought that this young lady was a girl that I knew in France; I was wrong; the girl I know is dead.
- Paul DuChard: Oh, a natural error, monsieur. My wife has been mistaken for dead girls by many men.” - From the movie: The Cheap Detective
“- Bess: You have a visitor in there, a Miss Sophie De Vega.
- Lou Peckinpaugh: Pretty?
- Bess: Prettier than me, but I'm easier.
- Lou Peckinpaugh: I'm saving you for the rainy season.” - From the movie: ... All the Marbles
“These dice are colder than my first wife.”
- From the movie: The Cheap Detective
“I'm using rented bullets for my gun. We all got problems.”
- From the movie: ... All the Marbles
- From the movie: The In-Laws
“- Vince Ricardo: I was in the jungle - the bush we called it - for approximately nine months...
- Sheldon Kornpett: Nine months! That must have really been something!
- Vince Ricardo: It was. I saw things... They have tsetse flies down there the size of eagles.”
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