Agents Quotes

• For me, when my agents and reps send me a script, I read it through, just for the story purpose of it, and then I read it again to think of my character and see if it's something that I'm interested in bringing to life.

  

  Dania Ramirez
  • Character
  • Purpose
  • Stories

• I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn't get any of those parts.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Knows
  • Moved
  • Agents

• I didn't grow up watching TV or going to McDonald's or listening to mainstream music. Like, the casting agents are looking elsewhere for the cheerleader role.

  

  Summer Phoenix
  • Role
  • Agents
  • Casting

• In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.

  

  Shawn Amos
  • Father
  • Talent
  • Careers

• We did not lack for religious leaders to urge us into "godly" war. All of this was part of a well-financed propaganda campaign on the part of British agents. As usual, the government of the United States was being "run" by the British Secret Intelligence Service.

  

  Eustace Mullins
  • War
  • Running
  • Religious

• I'm happy that I have agents and managers that believe in me.

  

  Tricia Helfer
  • Believe
  • Agents
  • Managers

• You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry.

  

  Heath Ledger
  • Hollywood
  • Agents
  • Managers

• My agent said that I was one of the top three busiest people in the country.

  

  Casey Kasem
  • People
  • Country
  • Said

• I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.

  

  Aldrich Ames
  • Names
  • Paid
  • Agents

• I'm so used to taping myself and sending it off and never hearing back. I started to believe that nobody actually ever sees my tapes, apart from my agent.

  

  Holliday Grainger
  • Believe
  • Used
  • Hearing

• There is a consciousness as an agent of one's own destiny as a person in America, there are things that can be done, there are advantages and benefits which exist that are directly related to - and even rest upon - white privilege.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Persons
  • Destiny
  • Consciousness

• I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.

  

  Morgan Brittany
  • Agents
  • Managers
  • Turned

• I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Business
  • Producers
  • Agents

• I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong.

  

  Gene Autry
  • Strong
  • Ambition
  • Winter

• The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Church
  • Politics
  • Matter

• I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

  

  Elise M. Boulding
  • Change
  • Families
  • Agents

• The biological agents we believe Iraq can produce include anthrax, botulinum, toxin, aflatoxin and ricin. All eventually result in excruciatingly painful death.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Believe
  • Results
  • Produce

• It's a great privilege just to be in a film not because you're some packaging that some agent has done with the studio exec: "We need a John Travolta film."

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Done
  • Film
  • Agents

• All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli publisher, my foreign ones, my bank manager - they all felt and keep feeling that I'm doing something wrong here.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Feelings
  • Stories
  • Should

• I've recommended girls for jobs that I had a different part in, and agents have been like, "No, don't ..."It's so surprising to me.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Jobs
  • Girls
  • Agents

• When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Actors
  • Rings
  • Evening

• Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Hard
  • Agents
  • Bucks

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