“It's not who you are, it's what you don't become that hurts the most.”
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Famous Oscar Levant Quotes
“I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive.”
“Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.”
“I played an unsympathetic part -- myself.”
Source: The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
“I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them.”
Source: The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
“I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?”
Source: The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
“George, if you had to do it all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?”
“Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.”
Source: The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
“When I was young I looked like Al Capone, but I lacked his compassion.”
Source: The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
“Talent's like a baby. Wrap it up in wool and it goes to sleep.”
“Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.”
“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
“Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.”
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
“A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.”
“Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.”
“Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.”
“So little time and so little to do.”
Source: The unimportance of being Oscar
“Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.”
“I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.”
“It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.”
“I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.”
Source: The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
“I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me”
“I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.”
“There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.”
“I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.”
“Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower”
“A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.”
“When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.”
Source: The unimportance of being Oscar
“My psychiatrist once said to me, 'Maybe life isn't for everyone'.”
“I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.”
“An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.”
“Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.”