Oscar Levant

“I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.”

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

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

“It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.”

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

“A politician is a man who will double-cross that bridge when he comes to it.”

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

“Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.”

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”

“Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.”

“I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me.”

“Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.”

“I am no more weird than any other big star. I'm just more honest.”

“So little time and so little to do.”

“Strip the phoney tinsel off Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.”