I didn’t act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an agent when I was 12, but they told me that I had too much of an accent.
My dad heard of a studio on the radio, and it was advertised as a place for kids to meet kids, and it was actually a studio, and that’s where I met my manager and agent.
There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe.
Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this Agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers.
For a very long time, I thought everyone I met through the process of getting an agent and a publishing deal had made a mistake. When they agreed to pay me for the book, I thought they would ask me for the money back.
I got sort of sick of seeing Asians being the blank, bland real estate agent or something. I didn’t care. It didn’t mean anything to me.
When I was told that I was doing a movie called ‘Lola Rennt,’ I was like, ‘What?’ I didn’t get it, or the title. I started reading the script, and I still couldn’t fathom that it was about a person named Lola running. Before my agent explained it to me, I couldn’t even make any sense out of it.
The ‘Sports Illustrated’ cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, ‘You know what, I really… I don’t want to be a model anymore. I really want to do movies.’ And I think he wanted to wring my neck at the moment.
My agent said that every Monday after an episode of ‘Entourage,’ at the staff meeting at the agency, that’s all they do is talk about the episode the night before.
Valencia approached my agent and said they want to buy me which is flattering, but it wasn’t like it was reported in the media. People said I’d demanded talks with Jose Mourinho when I’ve demanded nothing.
I had been struggling to get roles in Hollywood for three and a half years after leaving the WWE. Then I finally got an agent – the agent I have now. He’s a great guy, but he turned me down three times before he even decided to take me on a as a client.
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
Trump is going to be the change agent. Hillary Clinton is going to be the status quo. Bernie Sanders is not going to be in the mix.
The pandemic hastened the dominance of the web as the chief agent of entertainment. Big experience films will of course stay on as the friends and family outing mainstay. But viewing has already shifted to personal screens where the choice of time and content stays with the individual.
I realized that the actors that I liked and admired all went to drama school and got an agent that way. So I started when I was about 16 in drama school, and then I knew I had to wait until I was 18 so I could go on auditions, and I tried to get into one of the ones that I liked and then go from there.
I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.
Every officer, every deputy, every agent we lose is one too many. It’s a loss to our organizations, of course, it’s a loss to our community, and most importantly, it’s a devastating loss to the loved ones they leave behind.
My mother informed me that the way to be a change agent to create change, the first line of defense, or however you want to phrase that, is politics and government.
I always wanted to play with Kobe Bryant. I used to tease him all the time. Every time I was a free agent, I was like, ‘What’s up, bro? You got a chance to get the pit that you need. You feel me? This is your chance.’
I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn’t really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.
People always tell me, ‘You should do drama. You should do drama.’ Even when I first got an agent, they were like, ‘We want to send you out to be dramatic.’ And I’m like, ‘No. I’m a comedian. I’m funny. I want to do funny stuff.’
Whatever my agent says to do, I usually do.
I’m kind of in love with my theater agent. I’m a true naive about the theater, a total innocent.
I never really caught on in America. I don’t have an agent. It’s too strange for me.
I just go my own way. If my agent calls and presents me with something, and I find it refreshing or illuminating, yeah, I’ll do it.
Because we’ve always done it that way.’ During my 12-year tenure as a special agent with the U.S. Secret Service, I heard those words all too often. The agency, in my experience, has an entrenched management culture resistant to change.
No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
Ask your editor or ask your agent to find out what the house’s goals are for your book before it comes out. Get some sense of expectations so you are prepared.
Providing classified information to a foreign agent of the People’s Republic of China is a real and serious threat to our national security.
I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.
My agent is a Birmingham fan and I don’t think Birmingham and Aston Villa get on too well.
The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.
In high school, I was doing my magazine ‘Rookie’ and a lot of writing, and I became a little less interested in the fashion world. I was approached by an agent for writing, and I said I wanted to act as well. They sent me scripts, and then I got my first Broadway play, ‘This Is Our Youth’.
I ended up in TV because I have no ability to do anything else. I have an agent who tells me where I have to be when.
When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my ‘career.’ Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
I sold ‘Hattie Big Sky’ without an agent but quickly realized a writing career required an agent.
The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It’s a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.
I plan with the BBC African Player of the Year award to become an agent of hope and positive change in the lives of the millions of African youths who have lost hope and are deprived.
I am the closest of all to my wife, who is in and of herself a change agent and has committed to impacting the realities of homelessness – and making sure I get out of the house every day to do what I have to do.
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
A lot of the time the film chooses me. I’ll be working and I’ll get a call from my agent and I’ll get the script and then tell him what I think.
I didn’t know it at the time, but Hitch didn’t want to talk to me – he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me.
I like waking up in the morning and thinking, ‘Mmm, I might go to Paris today.’ I don’t want to ask anyone if they want to come with me or mind me going. I like being my own agent. I have my grandsons and son. If I didn’t have them, it would be different.
When you’re doing a film, your agent and manager spend hours – days – talking about contractual obligations. If you turn up for work and ask for a peeled grape on top of foie gras but you don’t get it, you can’t get annoyed.
My mother is not a CIA agent, but she’s an Italian mother, and she’d do anything for her son.
I was fresh off the boat from Romania, and one of my clients was the agent to all of the ’90s supermodels: Gail Elliott, Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour, Cindy Crawford. I had no idea who these girls were! They were so gorgeous, absolutely the most beautiful women I have ever seen in my life.
I’m in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls’, and I wouldn’t even have to audition. They’d call my agent directly and say, ‘We want twigs to come in.’
I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.
When you’re a federal agent you don’t get to arrest people for like $5.00 petty crimes or anything like that, they’ll throw you right out of there.
I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
For the record, I’ve never taken a bung in my life. I might have enjoyed a meal or a bottle of wine on an agent or two but that is it. I was earning £1.5m a year, so I didn’t need a little bit extra from an agent. It would have been madness.
