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.

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

I could not chop down a tree if my life depended on it.

I did do my own stunts.

I'm just looking to get through the day.

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

I do share with the lieutenant (Columbo) one very pronounced part of his personality - he loves to talk about his wife. You can't shut him up. I have the same problem. I can tell Shera stories till three in the morning. Shera is my wife.