Quotes from Oscar Levant

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

An epigram is a gag that's played Carnegie Hall.

She has the answer to everything and the solution to nothing.

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow.

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

Strip away the phoney tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath.

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.

Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision (on Dwight D. Eisenhower).

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

So little time and so little to do.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath.

The first time I met and embraced Judy Garland, it made pharmaceutical history.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.