Top 56 Quotes & Sayings by Oscar Levant
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Last updated on September 18, 2024.
I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.
Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
So little time and so little to do.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.
Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
I am no more humble than my talents require.
My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.
I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?
I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.
Debbie Reynolds is as wistful as an iron foundry.
When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.
You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)
It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.
I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me
Talent's like a baby. Wrap it up in wool and it goes to sleep.
It'd be nice to please everyone but I thought it would be more interesting to have a point of view.
I never watch the Dinah Shore show- I'm a diabetic.
Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.
I played an unsympathetic part -- myself.
George, if you had to do it all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.
Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower
I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.
An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.
When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly."
When I was young I looked like Al Capone, but I lacked his compassion.
Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts.
I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.
Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.
Ballet is the fairies' baseball.
I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive.
I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them.
My psychiatrist once said to me, 'Maybe life isn't for everyone'.
In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra will hate him.
A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.
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