Oscar Levant: Oscar Levant

Quotes 

• Oscar Levant : How long have you been working for that virtuoso of the magic violin?

  Don Wilson : Well, I...

  Oscar Levant : I don't mean that as a compliment. I only say a magic violin because when he plays it, everyone disappears.

  Don Wilson : Well, Oscar, in answer to your question, I've been working for Jack now for, uh, well, better than twenty years, and it just swells my chest with pride to think that a man of Jack's great talent and dynamic personality would want me as a member of his cast.

  Oscar Levant : Spoken like a man who hasn't saved a dime.

• Mary Livingstone : Something's wrong with Jack, and I don't know what it is.

  Oscar Levant : Well, a lot of things could be bothering him. Tell me, Mary, does he have problems with money?

  Mary Livingstone : Only keeping his stacks even.

  Oscar Levant : That figures. Uh, maybe his age is catching up with him.

  Mary Livingstone : Oh, Oscar, his age couldn't catch up with him, if Willie Shoemaker were riding it.