Quotes from levant oscar

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

How long have you been working for that virtuoso of the magic violin? I don't mean that as a compliment. I only say a magic violin because when he plays it, everyone disappears.

He uses his music as an accompaniment to his conducting.

I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

I played an unsympathetic part -- myself.

She was born with a silver flask in her mouth.

I'm a controversial figure: my friends either dislike me or hate me.

In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.

My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.

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

I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.

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