„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
Frases de Oscar Levant
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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. Wikipedia
Photo: Trailer screenshot, Rhapsody in Blue trailer / Public domain
Citações Oscar Levant
„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
„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
„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.
— Oscar Levant, livro The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965) http://books.google.com/books?&id=yWcIAQAAMAAJ&q=%22My+last+picture+for+Warners+was+Romance+on+the+High+Seas+It+was+Doris+Day%27s+first+picture+that+was+before+she+became+a+virgin%22&pg=PA192#v=onepage
A later paraphrase of this appeared in The Wit and Wisdom of Hollywood (1972) by Max Wilk: "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin."
„It certainly will be if you are still around.“
In response to Gershwin's query, "I wonder if my music will be played a hundred years from now"; as quoted in "George the Ingenuous" by Alexander Woolcott, in Cosmopolitan (November 1933); reprinted in Ch. IV: "'...A Young Colossus...'" https://books.google.com/books?id=ATcjgQTx0uIC&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=false from Gershwin Remembered (1992) by Edward Jablonski, pp. 44-45
If George is around, it will. (This version was recounted by Howard Dietz in Dancing in the Dark (1974), p. 61, in response to a virtually identical query—i.e. as to whether Gershwin's music would still be played in 100 years—posed by Newman Levy.)
„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)
On conductor George Enescu, 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 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.
— Oscar Levant, livro The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
„Incompatibility. And besides, I think she hated me.“
On why his first marriage ended in divorce, in A Smattering of Ignorance (1940); as quoted in "Oscar Levant, A Musical Know-It-All, Writes Book About Music And Himself," https://books.google.com/books?id=rD8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=incompatibility+%22i+think+she+hated+me%22&source=bl&ots=jaka7saxHY&sig=u4HIXFS2YCrP6tV1FRwspSLWO18&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMzIPMzdjRAhVCOyYKHQ_ECrYQ6AEIHzAD#v=onepage&q=incompatibility%20%22i%20think%20she%20hated%20me%22&f=false Life (February 5, 1940), p. 55
„Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.“
On President Dwight D. Eisenhower, as quoted in The Nastiest Things Ever Said about Republicans (2006) by Martin Higgins, p. 83.
„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.
— Oscar Levant, livro The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
— Oscar Levant, livro The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
„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
„The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.“
As quoted in The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom (1958) by Herbert Victor Prochnow, p. 322.
— Oscar Levant, livro The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
„I am no more humble than my talents require.“
As quoted in Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past (2005) edited by Carol A. Dingle.
