Frases de Oscar Levant
Oscar Levant
Data de nascimento: 27. Dezembro 1906
Data de falecimento: 14. Agosto 1972
Oscar Levant foi um pianista, ator, comediante e compositor. Ficou mais famoso por seus personagens mordazes no rádio, televisão e cinema, do que por seu trabalho como músico.
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Citações Oscar Levant
„Ballet is the fairies' baseball.“
— Oscar Levant
Oscar Levant, as quoted in "Oscar the Magnificent" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/161384355/ by Burt Prelutsky, in The Los Angeles Times (January 26, 1969), p. 468
„An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.“
— Oscar Levant
As quoted in Coronet Magazine (September 1968).
„John O'Hara was a terrible bore as a young man—always looking for a fight, and making sure he never found one.“
— Oscar Levant
Oscar Levant, as quoted in "Oscar the Magnificent" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/161384355/
„Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.“
— Oscar Levant
Quip about Monroe's conversion to Judaism, on The Oscar Levant Show, as quoted in They Knew Marilyn Monroe: Famous Persons in the Life of the Hollywood Icon (2012) by Les Harding
„I have seizures of momentary sanity.“
— Oscar Levant
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
„About his neuroses and hypochondria, the 1920s and 1930s wit Alexander Woollcott, a member of the Algonquin Round Table, once said of him: "There isn't anything the matter with Levant that a few miracles wouldn't cure."“
— Oscar Levant
Teichman, Howard, Smark Aleck, the Wit World and Life of Alexander Woollcott (William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1976), p. 170
„I envy people who drink — at least they know what to blame everything on.“
— Oscar Levant
As quoted in The Portable Curmudgeon (1992) by Jon Winokur, p. 88.
„The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.“
— Oscar Levant
As quoted in The Quotable Politician (2003) by William B. Whitman, p. 30.
„If George is around, it will.“
— Oscar Levant
In response to a question posed by Newman Levy, as to whether Gershwin's music would still be played a hundred years hence; as quoted in Dancing in the Dark (1974), p. 61
„I can see him to this day. He was witty and funny, always playing himself in the movies. He smoked so many cigarettes, there was a nicotine streak on his upper lip and on his fingers between the index finger and the second one. He was a wonderful guy—but he played the piano like a sledgehammer.“
— Oscar Levant
Mitch Miller, in "Mitch Miller Remembers," http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1987/11/15/page/358/ The Chicago Tribune (November 15, 1987), Sec. 13, p. 17
