Oscar Levant Quotes
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I played an unsympathetic part -- myself.
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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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I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?
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Talent's like a baby. Wrap it up in wool and it goes to sleep.
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Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
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Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower
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My psychiatrist once said to me, 'Maybe life isn't for everyone'.
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I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
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I am no more humble than my talents require.
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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
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Ballet is the fairies' baseball.
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I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
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Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.
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So little time and so little to do.
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When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.
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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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Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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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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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.
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I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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When I was young I looked like Al Capone, but I lacked his compassion.
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It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.
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I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.
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I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.
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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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