Oscar Levant Quotes
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
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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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Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
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Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
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John O'Hara was a terrible bore as a young man-always looking for a fight, and making sure he never found one.
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I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
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So little time and so little to do.
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Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I am no more humble than my talents require.
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It would have been better if you had died and Gershwin had written the elegy.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.
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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 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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A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
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Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
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A symphonic 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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I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.
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Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.
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If George is around, it will.