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

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

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

From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.
Jimmy Connors

After a while, the character sort of took over.
Peter Mayhew

When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.
Prince Andrew

I got involved in cocaine because I needed to lose weight. I felt the pressure living here. I took it to wake me up and keep me moving.
Jessica Hahn

I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him.
Alton Brown

We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television.
Ernie Wise

Really, in a way, I took over the male role.
Honor Blackman

Thirteen years I took on this last book.
Gay Talese

On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life.
John James Audubon

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.
Wentworth Miller

They took away time, and they gave us the clock.
Abdullah Ibrahim

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
Orson Scott Card

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
Al Lewis

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
Peter Gay

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.
Lech Walesa

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.
Keith Urban

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.
Christine Keeler