Agent Quotes
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The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.
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I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.
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Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.
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When Cara Delevingne and Dane DeHaan arrived, I told their agent, "They need to know all this." I gave them the 600 pages. I said, "You have to learn everything. You're a cop. You need to know the names." I don't want him, when he meets an alien to go, "Whoa" like this. I want him to know if this guy is peaceful.
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The only way an Iraqi biological agent would kill you is if it landed on your head.
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Aristotle devotes many pages to the relationship between your internal self as a moral agent – your ability to determine your own behaviour and control your destiny.
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I haven't taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven't been in jail, and I don't go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That's something of an accomplishment these days.
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I was under contract with Walt Disney at the time. I was co-starring in my second season of a show called, Texas John Slaughter. The Andy Griffith Show hired me to play Thelma Lou. I only worked when they called me. I would do an episode in two days and I got paid $500. After all the federal, state and local taxes were taken out and then my agent's commission I only got $200 some dollars per episode.
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He's not just a business adviser or agent, he's a friend. He really gets to know people.
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If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript even looked at by an editor. Many companies don't accept unsolicited manuscripts anymore, so they'll pay more attention to something that comes in through an agent.
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New York is a great place to be as an unrepresented actor because there are so many 'open auditions' that you can show up for without being submitted by an agent.
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Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.
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My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even if I want to.
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Every imperial agent wants to reduce what is possible to what is available.
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Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.
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As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network in the so called maritime provinces.
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When you're an agent or a lawyer; its about service, not for yourself, but for your clients.
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I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.
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In fact, I had previously helped train one of the FBI agents who searched my apartment.
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If you've had a bad experience with an agent, you have to move past it. You are bound to want a player at some stage who is represented by this guy and you will have to try to work around the personality of the agent. You tend to work out what makes them tick, what they respond to. You have to have tactical plans to get a deal over the line.
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They are dreams that you can't just go to the travel agent and buy. We tried to make them (the dreams) very unique.
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I really want my agent to make sure they write a part in the next Airbender movie for me. I'll be really upset if I don't get to be a waterbender or something.
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The agent which cures prevents, and the agent that prevents cures.
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If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill your agent.
