Oscar Levant quotes
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“Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.”
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“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
-- Oscar LevantSource : "On the 8th Day - God Laughed". Book by Gene Perret, p. 95, 1995.
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“Schizophrenia beats dining alone.”
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“The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.”
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“There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.”
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“Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.”
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“A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.”
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“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
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“I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.”
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“I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.”
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“I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.”
-- Oscar LevantSource : "Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past" edited by Carol A. Dingle, 2005.
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“So little time and so little to do.”
-- Oscar LevantSource : Oscar Levant (1968). “The unimportance of being Oscar”
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“Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.”
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“I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.”
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“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)”
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“My psychiatrist once said to me, 'Maybe life isn't for everyone'.”
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“When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.”
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“I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.”
-- Oscar LevantSource : "Fictional character: Adam Cook". "An American in Paris", www.imdb.com. 1951.
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“It'd be nice to please everyone but I thought it would be more interesting to have a point of view.”
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“[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.”
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“George, if you had to do it all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?”
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“Debbie Reynolds is as wistful as an iron foundry.”
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“A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.”
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“Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower”
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“Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.”
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“Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.”
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“Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.”
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“In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.”
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“It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.”
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“I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.”
-- Oscar LevantSource : Oscar Levant (1965). “The Memoirs of an Amnesiac”
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“I am no more humble than my talents require.”
-- Oscar LevantSource : "Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past". Book edited by Carol A. Dingle, 2003.
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“I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.”
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“I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me”
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“I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them.”
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“Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.”
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“Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.”
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“An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.”
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“I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive.”
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“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.”
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“I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.”
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“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."”
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“Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts.”
-- Oscar Levant
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