Top 54 Oscar Levant Quotes
#1. I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me
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#2. What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
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#3. I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.
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#4. 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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#5. Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
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#6. An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
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#7. I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.
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#8. 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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#9. I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them.
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#10. The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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#11. Happiness isn't something you experience, it's something you remember.
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#12. 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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#13. Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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#14. Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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#15. When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.
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#16. 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.
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#18. I never watch the Dinah Shore show- I'm a diabetic.
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#19. There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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#21. Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts.
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#22. I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.
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#23. I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.
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#24. George, if you had to do it all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
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#26. I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
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#27. Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.
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#28. Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower
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#29. It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.
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#30. 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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#31. I am no more humble than my talents require.
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#32. Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
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#33. There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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#34. First I brush my teeth and then I sharpen my tongue.
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#35. Debbie Reynolds is as wistful as an iron foundry.
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#36. I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive.
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#37. I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
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#38. I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends ... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
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#39. I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.
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#40. [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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#42. Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
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#43. 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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#44. Talent's like a baby. Wrap it up in wool and it goes to sleep.
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#45. In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.
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#46. Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
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#47. Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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#50. A pun is the lowest form of humor - when you don't think of it first.
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#51. I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.
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#52. A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
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#53. I've changed, I'm nice to people and I'm not so self-centered. What I'm trying to do now is think of the other person. The only trouble is, I've found that the other person thinks only of himself.
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#54. When I was young I looked like Al Capone, but I lacked his compassion.
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