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

My idea of Heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing.

It became the joke of the neighbourhood. If the umpire ruled me out on a bad call, I'd take the fake eye out and hand it to him.

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

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

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!'