Svengali Quotes

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

  Jerry Harrison

  Artist, Sound, Want

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• A lo largo de los años, se crearon mitos sobre mi relación con Fred Astaire. El gran público pensaba que era un Svengali, que chasqueaba los dedos para que su pequeña Trilby obedeciera; a sus ojos, mi carrera era creación suya.

  Ginger Rogers

  Eye, Years, Careers

  Ginger Rogers (1991). "Gineger My Story"

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• 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.

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Names, Vision

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

  Raymond Pettibon

  Rasputin, Death Penalty, Influence

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

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

  Pia Zadora

  Long, Overcoming, Stigma

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• 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.

  Tobin Bell

  People, Roles, Actors

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

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