„Invejo as pessoas que bebem. Pelo menos têm alguma coisa em que botar a culpa.“
— Oscar Levant
citado em "Frases Geniais" - Página 327, de Paulo Buchsbaum, Jaguar - Ediouro Publicações, 2004, ISBN 8500015330, 9788500015335 - 440 páginas
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Oscar Levant
Data de nascimento: 27. Dezembro 1906
Data de falecimento: 14. Agosto 1972
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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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„Há uma fina linha entre genialidade e loucura. Eu apaguei essa linha.“
— Oscar Levant
citado em "Frases Geniais" - Página 40, de Paulo Buchsbaum, Jaguar - Ediouro Publicações, 2004, ISBN 8500015330, 9788500015335 - 440 páginas
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„A hipocondria é a única doença que eu não tenho.“
— Oscar Levant
citado em "Frases Geniais" - Página 336, de Paulo Buchsbaum, Jaguar - Ediouro Publicações, 2004, ISBN 8500015330, 9788500015335 - 440 páginas
„O casamento é o triunfo do hábito sobre o ódio.“
— Oscar Levant
marriage is a triumph of habit over hate
The memoirs of an amnesiac - página 280, Oscar Levant - G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1965 - 320 páginas
„I would like to have been present, if I could have my choice of all moments in music history, when Stokowski suddenly became conscious of his beautiful hands. That must have been a moment. Like stout Cortez [sic] on a peak in Darien (I know it was Balboa) he saw before him a limitless expanse, a whole uncharted sea that might be subjected to his influence, free from the encumbrance of a baton.“
— Oscar Levant
In "Music in Aspic," Harper's Magazine (October 1939) and A Smattering of Ignorance (1940); as quoted in "Lightning Wit Plays On American Musical Scene; Oscar Levant Answers Unspoken Request for 'Information, Please' With Uncensored Comments on Exalted Persons" by Ray C. B. Brown, in The Washington Post (January 14, 1940), p. E4
„I rated the drug Demerol over sex as the ultimate pleasure at one time. Now I don’t have access to either.“
— Oscar Levant, book The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
„Instant unconsciousness had been my greatest passion for ten years.“
— Oscar Levant, book The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
„Apropos of nothing, I asked [Truman] Capote, “Are you for integration?” He said, “Yes, are you for integration?” I said, “I’m for disintegration… personal disintegration.”“
— Oscar Levant, book The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
„I have seizures of momentary sanity.“
— Oscar Levant, book The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
„I once said cynically of a politician, "He'll double-cross that bridge when he comes to it."“
— Oscar Levant, book The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965), p. 13; also quoted in The Quotable Politician (2003) by William B. Whitman, p. 31.
„When I used to speak of the lunatic fringe, I didn’t know I was going to be head of it.“
— Oscar Levant, book The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
„In the middle and late 50′s I was in hospitals constantly. I was committed every time I drew a breath or took an extra twelve pills–which never affected me much because I’m not suicidal.“
— Oscar Levant, book The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
„When I was in my prime, I was an egomaniac and didn’t allow my wife to buy the best sardines–the King Oscars–which bear my name. I felt there should be only one king in my house.“
— Oscar Levant, book The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
„[Ira Gershwin] said that [P. G. ] Wodehouse will address a letter, stamp it and throw it out of his third-story window onto the street trusting in the good nature of passerby to pick it up and mail it.“
— Oscar Levant, book The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
„The other night my daughter Lorna reminisced about the time I regressed to complete infantilism. We were having dinner and tapioca pudding was served. A wild glint came into my eyes and in the presence of my wife and children I shrieked at the top of my voice, “I love this more than anything in the world!” I had to be withdrawn from tapioca pudding slowly. It was one of the few times I wasn’t committed to achieve withdrawal.“
— Oscar Levant, book The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
„As a rule I never read bad reviews about myself because my best friends invariably tell me about them.“
— Oscar Levant, book The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
