„Invejo as pessoas que bebem. Pelo menos têm alguma coisa em que botar a culpa.“
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
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.
Citações Oscar Levant
„A hipocondria é a única doença que eu não tenho.“
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.“
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
„Há uma fina linha entre genialidade e loucura. Eu apaguei essa linha.“
citado em "Frases Geniais" - Página 40, de Paulo Buchsbaum, Jaguar - Ediouro Publicações, 2004, ISBN 8500015330, 9788500015335 - 440 páginas
„Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.“
As quoted in Time (28 August 1972).
„Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.“
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
„A psychiatrist once diagnosed my troubles as “an abdication of will.”“
— Oscar Levant, livro The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
„I don't drink liquor. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.“
As quoted in Time magazine (5 May 1958).
„I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.“
As quoted in Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past (2005) edited by Carol A. Dingle.
„I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.“
As quoted in Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past (2005) edited by Carol A. Dingle.
„As a rule I never read bad reviews about myself because my best friends invariably tell me about them.“
— Oscar Levant, livro 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, livro 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, livro 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.
„Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?“
Oscar Levant, as recounted by Levant in A Smattering of Ignorance (1940); quoted in "Books and Things" by Lewis Gannett, in The New York Herald Tribune (January 13, 1940), p. 11
„He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.“
On Sigmund Romberg, as quoted in Dancing in the Dark (1974) by Howard Dietz, p. 61
„I rated the drug Demerol over sex as the ultimate pleasure at one time. Now I don’t have access to either.“
— Oscar Levant, livro The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
„What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.“
As quoted in On the 8th Day — God Laughed (1995) by Gene Perret, p. 95.
„Ballet is the fairies' baseball.“
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.“
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, as quoted in "Oscar the Magnificent" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/161384355/
