Oscar Levant Quotes - Page 2

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• Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

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  Inspirational, Art, Real

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• I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.

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  Funny, Witty, Names

  Oscar Levant (1965). “The Memoirs of an Amnesiac”

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• I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

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  Selfish, Book, Reading

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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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  Rare Moments, Impossible, Odd

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.

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  Thinking, Firsts, Form

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• Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

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  Mind, Indecision

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• So little time and so little to do.

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  Funny, Time, Work

  Oscar Levant (1968). “The unimportance of being Oscar”

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• I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?

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  Men, Self, Helping

  Oscar Levant (1965). “The Memoirs of an Amnesiac”

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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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  Islands, Government, Desert

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• I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them.

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  Reviews, Bad Reviews, My Friends

  Oscar Levant (1965). “The Memoirs of an Amnesiac”

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

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  Drinking, Feel Good, Drink

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• 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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  Hate, Realization, Orchestra

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

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  Wise, Carnegie, Halls

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)

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• Talent's like a baby. Wrap it up in wool and it goes to sleep.

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  Baby, Sleep, Wool

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• I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive.

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  Play, Piano, Attractive

  "Fictional character: Sid Jeffers". "Humoresque", www.imdb.com. 1946.

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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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  Husband, Lovely, Persons

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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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  Falling In Love, Art, Love You

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• Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

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  Hate, Triumph, Habit

  Oscar Levant (1965). “The Memoirs of an Amnesiac”

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• Debbie Reynolds is as wistful as an iron foundry.

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  Art, Iron, Entertainment

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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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  Mistress, Stories, Bears

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• I played an unsympathetic part -- myself.

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  Unsympathetic

  Oscar Levant (1965). “The Memoirs of an Amnesiac”

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• When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.

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  Book, Sleep, I Can

  Oscar Levant (1968). “The unimportance of being Oscar”

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• Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

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  Baseball, Ballet, Fairy

  "Oscar the Magnificent". "The Los Angeles Times", January 26, 1969.

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• Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower

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  Mind, Dwight D Eisenhower, Dwight

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• I never watch the Dinah Shore show- I'm a diabetic.

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  Watches, Shows, Shore

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