Svengali Quotes

• I had basically the same stigma that Bo Derek did -- being created by a Svengali -- which took me a long time to overcome.

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  Pia Zadora

  Svengali   Long   Overcoming  

  1955

• One of the first speaking roles I had was in a film called 'Svengali', with Peter O'Toole and Elizabeth Ashley. I was a waiter, and I had about three lines. And I was ready! I had been around people like that, and I knew they were just actors. All the work I had done, it was all there, and I felt like I knew all the mechanics.

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  Tobin Bell

  Svengali   People   Roles  

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  1075

• It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.

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  Raymond Pettibon

  Svengali   Rasputin   Death Penalty  

  Interview with Max Blagg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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• Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thought he was a Svengali, who snapped his fingers for his little Trilby to obey; in their eyes, my career was his creation.

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  Ginger Rogers

  Eye   Years   Careers  

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

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  Jerry Harrison

  Artist   Svengali   Sound  

  2696

• He named me. He liked the sound of it. And I said, well, all right. I felt a little odd about it. I don't understand all that name changing business anyway... No, he felt that Lauren Bacall was better sounding than Betty Bacall. He had a vision of his own. He was a svengali. He wanted to mold me. He wanted to control me. And he did until Mr. Bogart got involved.

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  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable   Names   Svengali  

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