Oscar Levant Quotes


"Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision."
- Oscar Levant
(Related: Indecision, Mind)

"Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision."
- Oscar Levant
(Related: Indecision, Mind)

"Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I."
- Oscar Levant
(Related: Roses, Violets)

"Schizophrenia beats dining alone."
- Oscar Levant
"So little time and so little to do."
- Oscar Levant
(Related: Time)

"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."
- Oscar Levant
(Related: Hollywood)

"I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself."
- Oscar Levant
(Related: Books, Mind, Reading)

"There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side."
- Oscar Levant
(Related: Wrong)

"I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night."
- Oscar Levant
(Related: God, Enemies, Friends, Night, Trouble, Walking)

"Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character."
- Oscar Levant
(Related: Character)

"The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too."
- Oscar Levant
(Related: Democrats, Difference, Poor, Republicans)

"I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy."
- Oscar Levant
(Related: Chaos, Man, Study)

"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left."
- Oscar Levant
(Related: Humility, Needs, World)

"I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin."
- Oscar Levant
(Related: Day)

"I am no more humble than my talents require."
- Oscar Levant
"I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself."
- Oscar Levant
(Related: Books, Mind, Reading)

"I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on."
- Oscar Levant
(Related: People, Blame, Envy)

"I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good."
- Oscar Levant
"I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin."
- Oscar Levant
(Related: Day)

"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember."
- Oscar Levant
(Related: Happiness, Experience)

"Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel."
- Oscar Levant
(Related: Hollywood, Lies)

"A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it."
- Oscar Levant
(Related: Man, Will)

"I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does."
- Oscar Levant
"Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome."
- Oscar Levant
(Related: Time, Desire)