Oscar Levant Quotes - Page 2

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

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

I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.

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

So little time and so little to do.

Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.

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

[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.

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

I am no more humble than my talents require.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Debbie Reynolds is as wistful as an iron foundry.

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

I played an unsympathetic part -- myself.

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

Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

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

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