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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
Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.
Jerry Harrison
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.
Ginger Rogers
Farrell's other eleven defenses are The PMS Defense; The Husband Defense (Warren, I don't quite know how to summarize this one-not sure I get it); The ‘Battered Woman Syndrome' Defense, aka Learned Helplessness; ‘The Depressed Mother' Defense; The ‘Mothers Don't Kill' Defense; The ‘Children Need Their Mother' Defense; The ‘Blame-The-Father, Understand-The-Mother' Defense; The ‘My Child, My Right To Abuse It' Defense; The Plea Bargain Defense; The Svengali Defense; and The Contract Killing Defense.
Warren Farrell