Oscar Levant Quotes

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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

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When I was young I looked like Al Capone, but I lacked his compassion.

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

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It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

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Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.

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There is a thin line between genius and insanity.
I have erased this line.

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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath.

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I once said cynically of a politician, "He'll double-cross that bridge when he comes to it."

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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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Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.

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It's not what you are; it's what you don't become that hurts.

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I envy people who drink — at least they know what to blame everything on.

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The worst thing about having a mistress are those two dinners you have to eat.

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The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

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I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

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I don't drink liquor. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.

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Behind the phoney tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

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Of Zsa Zsa Gabor:
She's discovered the secret of perpetual middle age.

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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.

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Tell me, George, if you had to do it all over would you fall in love with yourself again.
To George Gershwin

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I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

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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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I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

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Mine was the kind of piece in which nobody knew what was going on, including the composer, the conductor, and the critics. Consequently I got pretty good notices.

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