I think that some actors who make it in Hollywood are very talented. There are some of my heroes, the Meryl Streeps of the world, a lot of people that I love their work but I think a lot of it is luck, looks, strategic alliances and relationships, your agent and a lot of business components.
I don’t know if my agent will be upset but I quoted him saying that he would jump out a window if I turn down another project.
I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a shipping agent in New York. Any writer who thinks they should be given patronage because of their gift… you don’t have to look too far in history to see that’s just not the case.
My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, ‘Oh, okay.’ I just started from there, singing and acting.
At first, when my agent told me, ‘They want you to do an interview, a piece for ’60 Minutes,’ I was like, ‘What is ’60 Minutes?”
As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.
I’ve always had a desire to play a cop or FBI agent.
I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it’s a domino effect. I would work for him forever, for nothing. Don’t tell my agent that.
I joined the Secret Service in June 1999 as a special agent and vividly remember an agency brimming with pride.
I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become ‘Behind the Scenes at the Museum’ and to my surprise she auctioned them off.
I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world – you can’t right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.
An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.
Being a mentor and a leader, I’ve always urged guys, if you’re ever allowed to be a free agent, to take advantage of that opportunity.
In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, ‘I’m going to write something you can sell.’ The idea was to write a straight page-turner, with no literary conceits.
To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.
I had an audition notice from my agent telling me the fake name of the part with a short description. I knew it was for The Walking Dead’ but had no idea of what the part would end up being.
When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.
I couldn’t let him die; I was the agent of life for Stephen.
Recovery is an ongoing project that is really discrete from everything else in my life. It allows me to be an agent, allows me to write, allows me to be married, allows me to be part of a family. The writing is not a support beam of recovery but a happy consequence of it.
I’ve always thought that there is a great female James Bond movie to be done. I’m not literally calling her Jane Bond, I mean, but a female secret agent.
My agent said the part was that of an eccentric old grandfather-come-professor type who travels in space and time. Well, I wasn’t that keen, but I agreed to meet the producer. Then, the moment this brilliant young producer, Verity Lambert, started telling me about ‘Doctor Who,’ l was hooked.
If you look at any successful professional – a salesperson, a marketer, a real estate agent, a trader – they all have the same qualities as the con man. The only difference is that one side uses their talents in the right direction and the con man is taking the easy way out.
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.
As an actor, you do feel very powerless… you are at the whim of the agent who submits you for a project, and then at the audition, you are at the whim of the casting director who will cast you or not.
My agent and manager would sternly tell me exactly the number of projects that we’ve turned down at this point. But, I think it’s really important to do the right thing next.
When you are a free agent like I was, it definitely makes a big difference when you know there’s stability at the quarterback position.
I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.
After I’ve sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.
A gun in the hands of a secret service agent protecting our president isn’t a bad word.
My dad was an FBI agent. My mom and dad were straight arrow types, and I had a conservative, suburban Orange County upbringing.
An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.
Most of the time a wrestler misses the in-ring action, but because of my back and working with the girls as an agent, I don’t miss it.
My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the ’50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like – you had – 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.
I’m still working on my speech, but I do a lot of voice-acting work. My agent is the best. I make a good living.
I met one of my best resources because I cold-called the local FBI office one day early in my career with questions. The agent who took the call knew someone who knew someone who was ex-Army, trained in personal protection. The resulting introduction was one of the best, most enduring friendships I’ve ever enjoyed.
If you are famous, single, and actually want to build a relationship that works, don’t look to date your co-stars… just ask them to set you up with their agent.
My job is to focus on the pitch, what happens off it is something for my agent.
Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.
Now I have an agent, a manager, a lawyer, a publicist, all the king’s horses and all the king’s men.
I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses – to pay the bills.
It’s not like they just open the gate to Hollywood and off you go – you earn your stripes. I worked ferociously hard even just to get an agent.
I was on vacation in New York when my agent called asking if I wanted to go right in and audition for ‘Billy Elliot,’ so I was lucky to be there.
Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.
Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations.
David Lynch saw my picture in a casting agent’s office in Seattle. I got a call to see him, and the rest is history.
I would say it wasn’t until my fourth season on ‘SNL’ where people or my agent was saying, ‘You’re an actor.’ I never thought of it that way.
Yet the reality is that I’m a stage actor from the Midwest – probably the opposite of a shark agent.
I went to my agent and told them, ‘I want to be on another Disney show.’
In fact, if they didn’t let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school with my classmates. I remember my agent’s jaw dropping when I told him if I couldn’t commute I didn’t want the role.
My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C.
I’ve said no to a lot of things I’d like to have done. My agent has never seen anything like it.
My dad’s got a brilliant eye for scripts ‘cos he’s a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.
Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?
I’d be twice as hard on my agent to get on the case. Because I think that’s the only way you end up with Bridgerton.’ You don’t get there unless you’re knocking on the door.
My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest amount of money my literary agent had ever negotiated for a work of fiction.
There’s not just playing on a Saturday and you receiving your money at the end of the month. There’s so, so much more to football than what people see. My agent told me when I was 15, 16, ‘you can have all the ability in the world but if you’re not mentally strong enough football will swallow you up.’
