Best 45 quotes of Oscar Levant on MyQuotes

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.

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

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

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

Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

Debbie Reynolds is as wistful as an iron foundry.

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

George, if you had to do it all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

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

Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

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

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

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

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

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

I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me

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

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

In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.

It'd be nice to please everyone but I thought it would be more interesting to have a point of view.

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

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

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

[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.

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.

My psychiatrist once said to me, 'Maybe life isn't for everyone'.

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

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

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts.

So little time and so little to do.

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

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

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

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

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.

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

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

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)