The Why’s of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.
An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.
I flew to New York to do a commercial back in the day when people could meet you at the gate, and the little agent when I came off the plane said, ‘Oh, Miss Carr, we are so happy to have you here.’ I went, ‘Oh, for goodness sakes.’
My father was a self-employed textile agent, and the shop below his office was an art gallery.
From an actor’s point of view, you never really like to hope that anything will go beyond the pilot. I’d always say to my agent every time I filmed a pilot, ‘Great! Well, I’ll see you at pilot season.’
When it comes to representation and agent meetings, a lot of times actors go into the meeting with the idea that they need the agent to pick them – but it’s a partnership.
When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you’ve been, and all that you will be in the future.
I’m an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.
Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.
I had no agent, and I was getting approached by so many people that I tried to escape for a while because I couldn’t believe that world. Photography is not an industry, and suddenly an industry came to me, so I sort of had to accept it in the end and get an agent.
Seeing the B-52s dropped from planes, watching the burning of civilians with Agent Orange, reading about the incarceration of Vietnamese militants in cages only big enough for tigers made me furious.
When I stopped playing football, I stopped my relationship with my agent. I always had one agent.
I don’t know if I’d want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it’s exciting and romantic and all that. Really, most of their job is standing in a hallway for 12 hours making sure somebody doesn’t come through a doorway off of a stairwell.
I watched ‘The Neighbors’ when it first came on, and I thought it was hysterical. And every time I think something just tickles my funny bone, I call my agent and say, ‘You know, I like this show. If they’re ever looking for somebody, I’d like to work with them.’
The reason I haven’t got an agent is so that no one can contact me to offer me a film part. In case I’m tempted to do something I’ll regret later.
If you haven’t taken a writing class, take a writing class. I took every class that was available in my area. I went to conferences inside and outside my area to network with people. That’s how I got my agent. I found my agent through another agent who was at a conference.
My agent spoke to me about a loan interest from Barcelona. The club wanted a striker with La Liga experience and someone who understands Spanish football.
In 1998, the acting roles suddenly bottomed out. I was no longer getting scripts; even my agent stopped calling. When I finally got him on the phone to ask him what was going on, he paused, then said: ‘Well, Christine, you’re 45.’ I got rid of him.
It’s not uncommon for a big free agent to come to a new club with a big contract and not perform up to his standards.
Most religions assume that you find purpose through some agent that sits above or outside the world and imbues it with purpose.
The successful advertising agent is the one who can convince the clients that he knows something they don’t.
As a former FBI counterintelligence agent who investigated foreign propaganda cases, I’ve seen firsthand how foreign intelligence services leverage American freedoms – and the constitutional limitations on the FBI’s investigative power – to their advantage.
The whole concept of the travel agent is absurd. They appear to be agents of the traveller but are actually agents of the airlines.
I met an agent through my modeling agency who encouraged me to go out and audition for sitcoms, and I was absolutely petrified because I had no desire to do it.
Being a Secret Service agent, I have an obligation not to disclose personal conversations and security details. But that doesn’t prevent me from speaking generally about foundational principles and the system of patronage and punishment I saw in the Obama administration.
‘Ex Machina’ was the first film I’d auditioned for. I didn’t have an agent.
I’d probably do something that involved music, a booking agent or working at a label, if not being an actual musician.
An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
The Holy Ghost is a comforter and a guide. But it is also a cleansing agent. That is why service in the kingdom is so crucial to enduring. When we are called to serve, we can pray for the Holy Ghost to be our companion with assurance it will come.
I convinced my parents to let me see an agent, but because I had been taught never to speak to strangers, I was so quiet during the interview, they said to bring me back when I was older.
I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my parents if I could have an agent for Christmas.
I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name. But I knew if I screwed up, people would never forget. I’d be dead.
I think I’ve wanted to be an actress since the day I was born. I even asked my parents for an agent for my seventh birthday!
Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.
I can understand why it takes some people a long time to really be a singer. You have to find out, ‘Why am I singing? What am I doing this for?’ I do it because I enjoy it, and philosophically, music is a catalyst. It’s a refining agent.
Nixon knew exactly what he wanted to accomplish in his four interviews with David Frost, quite apart from having his agent Irving Paul Lazar negotiate a terrific deal for him, with cash up front.
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
My agent knows what I’m looking for. And I’m also looking for a new agent, too, so I’m putting it out there. Again, I’m not going to turn down every role, because there is no bad role, really. It’s all what you bring to the role, but that traditional, ‘Stand here and open a rope,’ I’m not doing it.
Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.
I think what’s important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don’t, then they’re not going to work hard for you, and they’re going to send you out on things that you don’t want to do.
I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, ‘Can she play anything other than a drunk?’
People told me I was nuts when I went to sign an act from YouTube – and now, that’s one of the most conventional things you can do as an agent or manager.
Girls were scared of me because I can be loud. Barbara, my wife of 51 years, is very low-key. She was my picture agent’s secretary.
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.
That wasn’t a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.
I got this secretive, very secretive email from my agent saying, ‘You have an audition for Marvel, no one’s letting us know what the name of the film is, but are you available on this day? That’s all we know.’ And I went, ‘OK, well, I think it will probably be ‘Thor,’ because Taika’s got it.’
I got a young black woman agent, and she kinda just knew what I would be attracted to. She sent me this pilot for ‘Insecure.’ I never saw myself as a comedy director, but when I read those pages, I said, ‘Wow – this is my life on the page.’
I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson – character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
I think I sort of blossomed, so to speak, around 17. I started to get hips and put on weight, which I was very happy about. And that’s when I met this agent, who told me I had to lose 10 pounds. I said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me. I finally got it on – I’m not losing it!’
A line of duty death, whether an officer, special agent, or professional staff employee, is personal to the FBI, and it’s personal to me as Director.
My agent said that I was one of the top three busiest people in the country.
After Year 12, I went to Vancouver for my gap year and met an agent who told me to lose 25 kg.
I think my mom drove by a nuclear power plant when she was pregnant. But I wouldn’t be in ‘The Station Agent’ if she hadn’t.
Some years ago, I fired my agent, Andrew Wylie, alias The Jackal. I want to stress this wasn’t an amicable parting of the ways or a hankering on my part for fresh representation. I fired him because his agency wasn’t doing enough for me.
