#took

It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I just took advantage of everything I could. But when people are going to flat out tell you they're not going to hire anyone that's female, there's not much you can do about it. ↗

— Shannon Lucid

#advantage #anyone #anything #basically #could

It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#any #convince #down #dracula #film

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#before #hard #hard work #i #roles

My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#beat #bed #body #cold #cure

The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#attributes #demand #dracula #fever #horrible

I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting. ↗

— Derek Luke

#acting #college #could #ended #ever

I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#because #been #before #corporate #corporate world

I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

#daddy #ended #ever #gun #him

I did the pilot, and when they came through and said they were going to put it on the air, I had already some dates in the book with my band and so on. So Barry did the first one, he may have done a few more than the first one in the series, and I took it up from then. ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

#already #band #barry #book #came

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#became #better #beyond #frightened #i