Oscar Levant

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Oscar Levant (born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on December 27, 1906 – died on August 14, 1972 in Los Angeles, California) was a pianist and an actor, better known for his mordant character and witticisms than his music.

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

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

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

• "I am no more humble than my talents require."

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

• "I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on."

• "I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself."

• "I have no trouble with my enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night."

• "I once said cynically of a politician, "He'll double-cross that bridge when he comes to it.""

• "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin."

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

• "Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision."

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

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

• "So little time and so little to do."

• "Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath."

• "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."

• "There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

• "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."hu:Oscar Levant

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