Famous Quotes / Oscar Levant
37 Quotations by Oscar Levant
- 1. A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
- 2. An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
- 3. Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
- 4. Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
- 5. Happiness is not something you experience, it's something you remember
- 6. Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
- 7. I am a self-made man. Who else would help?
- 8. I am no more humble than my talents require.
- 9. I don't drink; I don't like it - it makes me feel good.
- 10. I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.
- 11. I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
- 12. I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
- 13. I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.
- 14. I knew her before she was a virgin.
- 15. I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.'
- 16. I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.
- 17. I'm a controversial figure: my friends either dislike me or hate me.
- 18. I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
- 19. I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.
- 20. I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.