When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and my agent sent me out. It was just a commercial for ‘Harry Potter.’ That was the first thing I ever went out for and I got the ‘Harry Potter’ commercial which was really cool, but I didn’t play Harry Potter.
I was filming ‘Father Brown’ when my agent told me about the audition. As soon as I heard the words ‘Line of Duty,’ I was so excited.
Bent Literary Agency had a Q&A on Twitter, and I took a chance and asked if the Black Lives Matter movement was an appropriate topic for a YA novel. Brooks Sherman, who is now my agent, responded that he didn’t think any topics were inappropriate for YA. I remember being so terrified even just sending the tweet.
I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it’s been rolling on since then.
When my agent told me I had an audition for ‘Friar Tuck,’ I burst out laughing. It actually brought a bit of sunshine to my day. I was thinking: fat suit. I was thinking: shaving my head. It was so outlandish, such a crazy idea.
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.
Putin is not a politician. Putin is a KGB agent. And whatever he does is provocations, which KGB is usually involved in.
I’m a free agent. I haven’t allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don’t need a promoter.
Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel – that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
I had a scholarship to Stanford because I won three California Speech tournaments. Before I started Stanford, I told my mother I wanted to take a bus into Hollywood and see if I could get an agent.
It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.
In rural communities, people are upset with the government, upset with what they see as business as usual. They saw Obama as a change agent, and they saw Donald Trump as a change agent.
Being under contract gives you financial and emotional security. But you lose the sense of accomplishment that goes hand in hand with being a free agent.
Whenever I travel anywhere, I’m constantly asked if I’m Swedish. It’s the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.
I feel like I have an amazing support team, between my husband and my nanny and my parents, who are very involved with my kids. I also have an incredible creative team with my manager, agent and publicist.
While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent.
‘Mariah’ was the first series-regular role for me, and that really came about because of ‘Secret Honor.’ That really was a direct result of that. Because now I had an agent and was submitted for that part, for James Malone. And… I was the casting director’s first choice for James Malone.
When I was younger, I actually wanted to be a CIA agent. Really. I even did the online questionnaire.
The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren’t the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.
I still have my agent back in Australia keeping an eye on things there, and we are trying to find the right job which will bring me home to shoot.
The Cubs gave me a chance to play. They signed me as a free agent and brought me to the Major Leagues. The first day I walked into Wrigley Field was one of the best days of my life. And I owe them an awful lot.
When I left Parnham aged 18, I could easily have ended up twiddling my thumbs in a workshop all week. But I lucked out and found an agent who immediately got me work and before long there was enough demand for my furniture to start a shop.
Whether it’s an FBI agent or a maid, if they want me to wear a pink tutu, I might have a few questions, but I’ll wear it for the sake of the story.
Had I listened to my agent, I’d be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.
My agent and I try to be picky with roles so that I can drive my career in different directions and be different, creative characters. I want to be an actor for the rest of my life and to have fun with my career. So I told him that I wish I could do a movie that already has a fan base. And then ‘Twilight’ came along!
All I ever promised was that I was sure I could develop a new pharmacological agent which might answer a physiological question. Any utility would be implicit in that answer.
With IFK, them as with all other clubs that are talking to my agent, I will listen to all kinds of offers that I receive, compare them and see what’s best for me and my family.
My agent makes 10% of what you make. When your agent tells you to take a vacation, you know you’re exhausted.
I have been saying to my agent and my wife for many, many months that I am going to be James Bond one day. I hope I’m not too ‘street’ for it.
There is no editor or agent or person with a sack of money that will magically come down and give you motivation to make your thing.
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. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
What I love about our league is that players have an opportunity in their career to be a free agent and decide where they want to invest their time and their talent, in whatever team and whatever system. They deserve that right. They’ve earned that right.
Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.
You have got to have an agent. It’s a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.
After ‘NewsRadio,’ I did say to my agent, ‘If I get another TV show, I’d want to do a drama.’ Then I got offered the part on ‘ER,’ and I was on that show for eight years.
Like with ‘Outlander’ as well as with ‘Agent Carter,’ I had never heard of ‘Outlander’ before I got the part.
My dad even likes to give me career advice. I’ll let him know about some offers about films and TV shows that I get, and he’ll ask me questions like, ‘What’s the money like?’ and ‘Who got this for you – was it your agent or manager, and what are they getting out of this?’
My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that – with my background – my own son would become an FBI agent.
As a rookie, I worked with my agent and the training staff to figure out what diet works for my body naturally.
My agent hates my directing career!
The best advice I got as a writer was also the first advice, which came from the late fantasy author and editor Karl Edward Wagner: Any agent who charges to look at your work is a crook.
Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I moved to New York City, and I got a job in a mail room, and I got an agent, doing what actors do, with head shots and all the rest of it.
I arrived back in Argentina and a week after I had the offer from Arsenal. They called my agent and my family and I thought it was all about signing a new contract for my club in Argentina because they wanted to offer me one at the time, but it was actually to sign for Arsenal.
You want to hear an agent scream, say, ‘I’m thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.’
I like the ‘Blackwell’ adventure games, and I’m fond of some of Telltale’s games, like ‘Hector’ and ‘Puzzle Agent’ – simple stories, but fun. I thought ‘Heavy Rain’ was amazing.
If did go back to school, I would want to learn another aspect of the entertainment industry like to become a producer or an agent, you need a law degree.
An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.
I was being rejected all the time. Agents would say, ‘I don’t think you’re the type they’re looking for.’ I was always like, ‘You think? I don’t want you to think. I want them to think that.’ This business is all about someone’s opinion, but not the agent or the manager’s. How do they know? They’re not that person.
I was just about to sue the BBC for unlawful dismissal when I ran into Michael Foster, Chris Evans’s agent, who said never go near the law courts. Especially as an individual against a corporation with limitless funds.
In college, I won the Irene Ryan; it’s kind of like a collegiate Tony, which got my career going. I was honored. I won a fellowship to the Kennedy Center, and that’s where I got my agent.
I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I’m never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile.
