The camera fails to capture the ‘business’ in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
In ‘The Secret Agent,’ it’s basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don’t really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity.
Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.
I don’t think anyone should grow up wanting to go around killing people. I don’t think anyone should grow up wanting to be a secret agent.
I’ve always wanted to do a horror film. I don’t know if my agent will be happy I said that when I get sent some crap horror films, but I’d like to do a good one, like ‘It Follows,’ or ‘The Babadook.’
I don’t try to impress people. Sometimes my jokes can be very harsh; I’m very sarcastic. I would joke about something disgusting, and my agent might be like, ‘OK, maybe leave that behind for this one meeting. The burping? Maybe don’t do that.’
We are definitely a team, from each band member to our management/booking agent. I like to be as involved as possible with business decisions, but at a certain point, it’s important to me to step aside and let the professionals do their thing.
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.
My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.
I’ve not sat with my agent going: ‘Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?’ They just come along.
My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth.
First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don’t get much airtime in day-to-day life. What’s the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we’re at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?
But the threat of a pandemic is different from that of a nerve agent, in that a disease can spread uncontrollably, long after the first carrier has succumbed.
Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.
A lot of athletes go from not making any money at all to make any large pot of money. Then they get approached by an agent who takes a percentage. Then they get approached by your financial advisor who starts investing your money without you even understanding what he’s doing.
For the Broncos, they’re kind of in a rebuilding stage with a lot of young guys and here I am, 10 years in the league, ready to be a free agent. I think it was best for the Broncos to trade me for the draft picks and try to build.
You could say ‘lame duck’ or you could use ‘free agent.’ I think they are both the same term.
If your agent or publisher is jumping up and down at the thought of your novel, it’s because they’re picturing the movie poster on the side of the bus.
My first novel, ‘Housekeeping,’ was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my experience with publication has been gentle and gratifying.
I haven’t been in a position to be a free agent or know what that is like and then to have the chance to go where you want to go. That’s always been – I feel, with players, they want that option.
Gravity Falls’ has so much inspiration that comes from ‘Twin Peaks,’ the idea of Agent Cooper being the one to drive Dipper and Mabel home made me feel like, yeah, they’re going to be all right.
A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.
I had bill collectors chasing me. We were skipping from town to town, not leaving forwarding addresses. The agent couldn’t find me when he sold my book. He finally found me.
Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
I remember telling the agent, ‘I don’t want to do anything but Broadway.’ She was like, ‘That’s not really possible because there is not that much Broadway. So I’ll send you out on TV and stuff like that.’
I first learned about kicking under pressure in 1996, my rookie year with the Patriots. I was signed as a free agent by a team that already had Matt Bahr, one of the best kickers around. To win the job, I had to show coach Bill Parcells that I could make kicks when they counted. That process started in training camp.
Every rejection, every phone call from my agent to say, ‘It didn’t go your way,’ I felt the layers of my skin growing. ‘OK, cool, let’s move on.’ You have to get beyond the fear of rejection and plow on because it’s intense.
I was out with my friends when a casting agent came up and asked me if I was interested in acting.
Like any other actor, my agent called me with an opportunity. It just so happens that the opportunity was the lead in ‘Star Wars.’
Somebody said, ‘Get your agent to call the new Bob Cummings show. They’re looking for a funny lady.’ Within three hours, I had the job. That was January 1955. I had such fun with that show.
As a young actor, I played a lot of ‘exotic’ parts and was stuck with the tag ‘sultry.’ I had to refuse such parts if I were ever to play anything else. It did the trick, but my agent feared it made me harder to cast.
Unfortunately, I ended up kind of getting sadly duped, in a way. I haven’t had an agent in 10 years, and now I’m doing some of the most interesting films I’ve ever had an opportunity to play in.
It was the middle of winter, Con Edison had shut off my power, and I didn’t have an agent. I made this VHS tape of some monologues, but I didn’t even have the money for a MetroCard. So I walked the tapes ’round to the different agencies in town.
Hillary Clinton, an agent for the Oligarchy, was defeated despite the vicious media campaign against Donald Trump. This shows that the media and the political establishments of the political parties no longer have credibility with the American people.
I was probably the first footballer ever to have a pop-star profile, and my agent was right when he said we could put my name on stair rods and sell them to people in bungalows.
I want to earn a contract. I don’t want a contract because in the next year I’m a free agent, so they might look to tie me down.
I didn’t get an agent until after ‘Last Comic Standing’ – of course, getting on a show like that will get you attention.
I often go to lunch meetings with my agent, a gallerist or a casting director, but if not, I stay at home and prepare my own food because I love to cook. I’m great at pasta, fish and nice salads.
Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who is sensitive to right and wrong. But I would bet that children would tattle even if they could do so only anonymously. They would do it just to have justice done.
I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on ‘Mad Men,’ it might be recurring and they’re seeing people tomorrow. I said, ‘OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.’ I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.
My agent once said, ‘You’re not very driven.’ And it’s true. I’m not the type to ring up and go, ‘Get me this part!’
I don’t like James Bond. They made him a super hero, but he is just an agent, a human being. In my movies, secret agents are more realistic, I didn’t want to portray them in the most glowing colours.
If you only sign the players of one FIFA agent, sometimes you can make the deal, sometimes you can’t.
Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.
I worked on ‘Always and Forever, Lara Jean’ for a few months before I breathed a word of it my editor or agent.
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Probably because I really love this bookmaking and storytelling world, I’d been thinking for years about the possibility of becoming a literary agent.
We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new.
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.
The ‘ER’ role was not Asian-specific, and my agent knew that I loved the show.
My daughter did this production of ‘Romeo & Juliet’ when she was younger, and this agent said she should work, and I said, ‘You know what? I’d rather just have her go to school.’
I came to New York when I was eighteen years old, and the first audition that I ever went to was this huge cattle call at the Equity building where I had gone two days earlier to sign up – I didn’t have an agent or anything. It was for ‘Chicago.’ There were probably three hundred people there.
