Oscar Levant credited as playing...
Oscar Levant
- Oscar Levant: Tell me something, George... if you had it to do all over again, would you still fall in love with yourself?
- Oscar Levant: [climbing into a sleeper berth on the train to L.A] The difference between an upper berth and a lower berth is the difference between talent and genius.
- Oscar Levant: If I had your talent, I'd be a pretty obnoxious fella. What do you call yourself?
- George Gershwin: George Gershwin, it's my real name.
- Oscar Levant: Mine's Oscar Levant. I'm thinking of changing it.
- George Gershwin: I'm alright! My headaches gone, and I can play!
- Ira Gershwin: Don't overdo it, George.
- Oscar Levant: Take it easy, fella'.
- George Gershwin: Why should I take it easy? I feel wonderful! Now we can finish the score of the picture and get on with something else. I'd like to try a ballet, or maybe a string quartet, or better yet... I'd like to set The Gettysburg Address to music.
- Oscar Levant: With a little more suffering, I could become a great singer.
- Max Dreyfus: We've been doing the suffering, my boy.
- Dreyfus receptionist: Are you still here?
- Oscar Levant: How would you like to sponsor me through college?
- George Gershwin: I see you've learned to play with both hands.
- Oscar Levant: I took the liberty of recording our rhapsody.
- George Gershwin: How long have you known Mr. Dreyfus?
- Oscar Levant: Never met him in my life.
- George Gershwin: But you just called him by his first name.
- Oscar Levant: It's better than swearing. In this town, if you don't call a man by his first name, he doesn't publish your music. They don't publish mine anyway. But it's still a good theory.
- Ira Gershwin: The nearer we get to the coast, the faster the train goes.
- George Gershwin: Speed, how I love it. Listen to the wheels, Ira. Gotta-make-time, gotta-make-time,gotta-make-time, gotta-make-time.
- Oscar Levant: [from outside the door of the cabin, pretending to be a porter, singing] Folks with plenty of living, de locks on de door.
- [knocks, talking]
- Oscar Levant: De Porter, sah.
- George Gershwin: And what critics said "Porgy and Bess" was too high brow?
- Ira Gershwin: Come in.
- Oscar Levant: [George and Ira laugh to see it's Oscar] Ya sah. Ya sah. Ya sah.