Agents Quotes:

...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.

- Al Gore

topic: Agents, Evolution, Bursting

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

- Alan Rickman

topic: Agents, Very Good, Turns, Snape

I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.

- Aldrich Ames

topic: Names, Double Standard, Agents

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

- Aldrich Ames

topic: Names, Agents, Unions, Cia, Cia Agents

When a casting agent sees me, he kind of knows what he's getting.

- Alexa Vega

topic: Agents, Casting, Kind

We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims.

- Ali Khamenei

topic: Believe, People, Agents

Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.

- Ali Vincent

source: Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.128, Rodale

topic: Goal, Agents, Resistance

The Church is where it is today because it has decided that the advertising agents know better than the Holy Spirit of God.

- Alistair Begg

topic: Church, Agents, Today

An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.

- Allison Janney

topic: Play, Agents, Able

Covert Operations Report At approximately 0900 hours on Saturday, October 14, Operative Morgan was given a stern lecture by Agent Townsend, a tracking device by Agent Cameron, and a very scary look from Operative Goode. (She also got a tip that her bra strap was showing from Operative McHenry.) The Operative then undertook a basic reconnaissance mission inside a potentially hostile location. (But it wasn't as hostile as Operative Baxter was going to be if everything didn't go according to plan.)

- Ally Carter

topic: Scary, Looks, Agents, According To Plan

Most agents hate prologues. Just make the first chapter relevant and well written.

- Andrea Brown

topic: Hate, Agents, Firsts, Prologue

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

- Andrew Jackson

topic: Government, People, Agents

With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.

- Anthony Burgess

topic: Cottages, Agents, Literature

You can have all the agents and publicists in the world but no one's ever going to give you 110 per cent like someone who loves you.

- Archie Panjabi

topic: Love You, Giving, Agents, Publicists

When I was younger I was fat. I was never conscious of it and was content with who I was because I was so loved. My mother never told me to lose weight and my father doted on me, but my agent told me. I tried, but I loved Indian food too much.

- Archie Panjabi

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mother, Father, Agents, Indian Food, Lose Weight

When you're an agent or a lawyer; its about service, not for yourself, but for your clients

- Arn Tellem

topic: Agents, Clients, Lawyer

You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Wind, Agents, May, Free Agents, Rejecting

Howard Minsky had gotten the script to her agent prior to my involvement.

- Arthur Hiller

topic: Agents, Scripts, Involvement

When I heard Jonathan [Cole's agent] repeat the figure of £55k-a-week, I nearly swerved off the road. 'He is taking the p**s, Jonathan!' I yelled down the phone. I was so incensed. I was trembling with anger. I couldn't believe what I'd heard.

- Ashley Cole

source: "A man of our times" by Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2006.

topic: Believe, Phones, Agents

My agent didn't want me on Disney because I'm older. But honestly, I'm not ready for older roles yet, or even the things older girls do. I am still young.

- Ashley Tisdale

topic: Girl, Roles, Agents

I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.

- Barbara Corcoran

topic: Real, Agents, Seven

I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.

- Barbara Steele

topic: Agents

The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.

- Ben Macintyre

topic: Deception, Agents, Secrecy

I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

- Ben Nicholson

topic: Men, Agents, Instruments

If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill your agent.

- Bernice Rubens

topic: Morning, Wake Up, Agents

The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it.

- Blake Lively

topic: Powerful, Agents, Most Powerful

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Kindness that catches us by surprise brings out the best in our natures.

- Bob Kerrey

topic: Powerful, Kindness, Agents

We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction

- Boutros Boutros-Ghali

topic: World, Agents, Destruction, Landmines, Scourge

Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love

- Bruce D. Perry

topic: Powerful, Agents, Therapy

No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.

- Bruce Forsyth

topic: Tears, Agents, Should

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.

- Casey Affleck

topic: Agents, Bad Luck, Moved

A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.

- Cecil B. DeMille

source: "Sunset Boulevard", www.imdb.com. 1950.

topic: Agents, Dozen, Spirit, Sunset Boulevard

Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.

- Charles Duhigg

topic: Risk, Experts, Agents, Insurance Agent, 17th Century

Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.

- Charles Grandison Finney

source: Charles Grandison Finney, George REDFORD (D.D.) (1851). “Lectures on systematic theology, embracing moral government, the atonement, etc. Revised, enlarged, and partly re-written by the Author ... Edited ... by G. Redford”, p.29

topic: Character, Men, Agents, Moral Action, Moral Character

Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.

- Charles Henry Parkhurst

topic: Agents, Benefits, Indifference

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

- Chris Abani

topic: Imagination, Stories, Agents

People who connect and build fluid relationships are trust agents.

- Chris Brogan

topic: Communication, People, Agents

In a way, the web is like your Hollywood agent: It speaks for you whenever you are not around to comment

- Chris Brogan

topic: Marketing, Hollywood, Agents

My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth.

- Christoph Waltz

topic: Men, Agents, Earth

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.

- Christopher Heyerdahl

source: "Q&A – Christopher Heyerdahl (The Swede)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

topic: Thinking, Agents, Publicity, Swedish, Norwegians

The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent.

- Christy Carlson Romano

topic: Agents, Change Agent

I got an agent when I was 12, and I started working in more amateur productions well before that. But even as a kid, I never felt like a kid actor, you know? I always took myself kind of absurdly seriously.

- Claire Danes

topic: Kids, Actors, Agents

Wine is a civilizing agent.

- Clifton Fadiman

topic: Wine, Agents

What kind of FBI agent are you?

- Colin Mochrie

topic: Agents, Kind, Fbi, Fbi Agents

I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.

- Courtney Love

topic: Play, Agents, Rats

I speak to my agent about great roles, and he's like, 'They are all going to Will Smith.

- Cuba Gooding, Jr.

topic: Roles, Agents, Speak

Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.

- Cyrano de Bergerac

topic: Country, Creating, Agents, Procreation, Creating Life

Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.

- Dana Stabenow

topic: Agents, Literature, Fiction

[I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.

- Danah Zohar

topic: Volunteer, Agents, World

I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.

- Daniel H. Wilson

topic: Editors, Three, Agents, Queries, Literary Agents

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

- Daniel Webster

topic: Power, People, Agents, Supreme Power

Ive met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

- Daniela Ruah

topic: Real, Female, Agents

Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself.

- Dashiell Hammett

topic: Three, Agents, Trouble

There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility

- David Buss

topic: Agents, Influence, Economics

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

- David Byrne

topic: Secret, Agents, Astronaut, Secret Agent

This is not only a possible breach of national security; it is a potential violation of law. Under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, it is a crime for anyone who has access to classified information to disclose intentionally information identifying a covert agent.

- David Corn

source: "A White House Smear" by David Corn, www.thenation.com. July 16, 2003.

topic: Law, Identity, Agents, Classified Information, Covert

I think Mulder is the worst FBI agent in the world. He spends millions of dollars investigating these paranormal phenomena and never comes up with any evidence. He's the Kenneth Starr of the FBI.

- David Duchovny

topic: Thinking, Dollars, Agents, Fbi Agents, Kenneth

I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round.

- David Dunn

topic: Guy, Agents, Attractive, Free Agents

It is the everlasting disgrace of the Clinton Administration that it has chosen to betray America's heritage as a beacon of freedom, and instead to act as the ally and agent of a police state in retrieving one of its prisoners.

- David Horowitz

topic: America, Police, Agents, Beacons

In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits. There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.

- David Lee Roth

topic: Cameras, Lenses, Agents, Time Limit

Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.

- David Stern

source: "NBA Commissioner David Stern discusses Dwight Howard, new CBA". Interview with Josh Robbins, www.orlandosentinel.com. January 21, 2012.

topic: Smart, Agents, Management, Drafting, Free Agents

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.

- Debbie Ford

topic: Acceptance, Agents, Accepting

Those crazies in Montana who say, 'We're going to kill ATF agents because the U.N.'s going to take over'? Well, they're beginning to have a case.

- Dick Morris

topic: Montana, Agents, Cases

I get asked to give stuff to my dad. I'm, like, 'I'm not gonna pass your script to him!' You know? My dad's my dad. I'm not his agent.

- Domhnall Gleeson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dad, Giving, Agents

When I choose projects, I don't stipulate between film or theatre or television. I receive scripts and I read scripts - and when I read a script that's good, I then get married to it and talk to my agent about what happens next.

- Dominic Monaghan

topic: Theatre, Agents, Television

I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot

- Donnie Wahlberg

topic: Agents, Goes On, Auditions, Grassroots, Big Movie

The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.

- Douglas William Jerrold

topic: Ink, Agents, World

You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.

- Earl Weaver

topic: Team, Winning, Agents, Off Season, Free Agents

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Spiritual, Agents, Awareness, Change Agent

Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes to an end by itself. Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Patterns, Doing You, Agents, Futility

All women are natural born espionage agents.

- Eddie Cantor

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Keeping Secrets, Agents, Natural, Espionage

Healing with the clean, pure, beautiful agents of nature is surely the one method of all which appeals to most of us

- Edward Bach

topic: Beautiful, Healing, Agents

In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.

- Edward Bernays

source: Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

topic: Exercise, Power, Agents, Department, Free Agents

You have got to have an agent. Its a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.

- Elizabeth Banks

topic: Thinking, Agents, Way

There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shriveling up the reality in which one is lodged.

- Erving Goffman

source: "Encounters: Two Studies in the Sociology of Interaction". Book by Erving Goffman, p. 38, 1971.

topic: Reality, Agents, Alive, Remarks

All magic is about transformation... the performance magician is telling you that you are the magician in your own life. You are the agent of transformation, your own transformation.

- Eugene Burger

topic: Magic, Agents, Transformation

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

- Ezra Pound

topic: Writing, Agents, Way

I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.

- Felicity Kendal

topic: People, Negative, Agents

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.

- Francesca Annis

topic: Sharks, Agents, Actresses, Starting Out, Publicists

My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get, except the blinding headaches.

- Fred Allen

topic: Agents, Headache

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.

- Fred Allen

topic: Stars, Agents, Telescopes

It's very nice having my mum as my agent. You know that she's always doing what's best for you.

- Freddie Highmore

topic: Nice, Agents, Mum, Very Nice

No one in America fully understands the constantly changing Internal Revenue Code. Agents of the IRS do not, judges do not, congressmen do not, and most assuredly taxpayers do not.

- G. Edward Griffin

topic: America, Judging, Agents, Do Not Judge

Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.

- Gail Collins

topic: Wall, Immigration, Agents

I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.

- Gary Busey

topic: Opportunity, Wife, Agents

There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.

- Gary Neville

topic: Jobs, Player, Agents

When Wealth walks in at the Door, the Press Agent comes in through the Window.

- George Ade

topic: Doors, Agents, Wealth

I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists.

- George Orwell

topic: Lying, Firsts, Agents, Telling Lies

My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts.

- Gerard Butler

topic: Agents, Contracts

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

- Giacomo Casanova

topic: Evil, Done, Agents, Free Agents

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

- Glenda Jackson

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Business, Men, Agents, Accountants, X Men

My parents walked in on me Googling 'agents for kids' when I was 9.

- Graham Phillips

source: "Graham Phillips" by Mark Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2012.

topic: Kids, Parent, Agents

I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.

- Grant Bowler

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Dad, Self, Agents, Queensland, Insurance Agent

It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.

- Gregory A. Boyd

source: Gregory A. Boyd (2000). “God of the Possible: A Biblical Introduction to the Open View of God”, p.31, Baker Books

topic: Doe, Agents, World, Free Agents

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

- Grover Cleveland

source: Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

topic: People, Political, Agents, Partisanship, Political Action

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

- Grover Cleveland

topic: Law, People, Agents, Public Office, Public Servants

My agents are busy with the final details of the contract.

- Guus Hiddink

topic: Details, Finals, Agents

You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry.

- Heath Ledger

topic: Hollywood, Agents

I'm not going to let fear rule my life. I'd rather be able to know that I've made a choice that's right for me, than saying yes because I don't want my agents to be upset with me.

- Heather Matarazzo

source: Source: www.mtv.com

topic: Choices, Upset, Agents

Press agent - a man who hitches his braggin' to a star.

- Hedda Hopper

topic: Stars, Men, Agents

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.

- Helena Bonham Carter

topic: Agents, World

My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.

- Helena Bonham Carter

topic: Father, Agents, Ill

I have always believed that women are not victims, we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace -- all we need is a fighting chance.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Fighting, Progress, Agents

Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken.

- Humphry Davy

topic: Agents, Danger, Mistaken, Approximation, Experimental Science

Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

- Imelda Staunton

topic: Imagination, Agents, Boxes

An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

- Immanuel Kant

topic: Agents, Action, Goodness

I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.

- Imran Khan

topic: Islamic, Pakistan, Agents, Rushdie

Anbody can make an easy deal, but only a true agent can sell a dog.

- Irving Paul Lazar

topic: Dog, Agents, Easy

I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.

- Irving Paul Lazar

topic: Actors, Agents, Literary Agents

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.

- Jackie Collins

topic: Aquariums, Essentials, Agents, Manuscripts

Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.

- Jacques Ellul

topic: Christian, Agents, Dimensions, Troublemaker

I'm probably the only member of the 'Bachelor' cast without an agent!

- Jake Pavelka

source: "Jake Pavelka, Vienna Girardi ('The Bachelor')". Digital Spy Interview, www.digitalspy.com. March 2, 2010.

topic: Agents, Bachelors, Members

Now that I'm a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that's what pleases me.

- James Blish

source: James Blish (2017). “A Case of Conscience”, p.124, Open Road Media

topic: Mean, Choices, Agents, Free Agents

My wife is really unhappy with my agent. But I'm the big winner.

- James Denton

topic: Wife, Unhappy, Agents

As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents, and we just go out and audition for them.

- James Frain

source: "James Frain Exclusive Interview TRON: LEGACY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 27, 2010.

topic: Agents, Auditions, Tvs

Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.

- Jane Bryant Quinn

source: Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

topic: Brain, Agents, Firsts, Coma

I was a huge 'Friends' fan. I had a very small part. I played a real-estate agent in the very last season.

- Jane Lynch

topic: Real, Fans, Agents, Estate Agents, Small Parts

An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.

- Jane Seymour

topic: America, Agents, Accents

No, I don't have an agent. I'm hoping to get one soon.

- Jason Mewes

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Agents

I didn't have an agent, I didn't have a headshot. I didn't even know if anyone would know where to find me. I just went back to highschool and started playing with my band.

- Jason Schwartzman

topic: Band, Agents, Headshots

No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may avail himself of the agents offered him by nature, to invest matter with utility.

- Jean-Baptiste Say

topic: Creating, Agents, May

I tell my agent that I want to read everything.

- Jena Malone

topic: Agents, Want

What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organize everything for me. I don't want to do things on the Internet.

- Jenny Eclair

source: "Me and my travels". Interview With Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2006.

topic: Agents, Want, Internet, Posh, Travel Agent

How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.

- Jenny Holzer

topic: Desire, Agents, Numb

Ridiculous as our market volatility might seem to an intelligent Martian, it is our reality and everyone loves to trot out the 'quote' attributed to Keynes (but never documented): 'The market can stay irrational longer than the investor can stay solvent.' For us agents, he might better have said 'The market can stay irrational longer than the client can stay patient.'

- Jeremy Grantham

topic: Intelligent, Reality, Agents, Keynes, Volatility

We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions.

- Jerome Bruner

topic: Self, Needs, Agents

The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.

- Jessica Alba

topic: Kids, Directors, Agents

Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.

- Jim Bouton

topic: People, Wife, Agents, Stockbrokers

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.

- Jim Butcher

topic: Pain, Fire, Agents

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

- Joe Pantoliano

topic: Agents, Pages, Scripts, Memento, Downsizing

Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty.

- John Agar

source: "Fictional character: Dr. Roger Bentley". "The Mole People", www.imdb.com. 1956.

topic: Agents, Publicity, Royalty, Deceased, Archaeologists

Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose.

- John Ashcroft

topic: Needs, Agents, Way

When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished.

- John Corbett

topic: Thinking, Three, Agents, Lead In

The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents

- John Culberson

topic: Borders, Agents, Enough, Sheriffs, Border Patrol

I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.

- John Cullum

topic: Musical, Singing, Agents, Needed Someone, Understudies

Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy Spirit is the Agent by whom this is accomplished.

- John G. Lake

topic: Men, Agents, Ascent

The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions.

- John Henry Holland

source: John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman

topic: Agents, Action, Given

The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.

- John Henry Holland

source: John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman

topic: Agents, Action, Recycling

If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities of individual agents.

- John Henry Holland

source: John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman

topic: Numbers, Agents, Able

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

- John Sayles

topic: Book, Acting, Agents

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

- John Schlesinger

topic: Relationship, Actors, Agents

We can no longer allow multi-nationalists to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.

- John Sweeney

topic: Democracy, Progress, Agents

I went out as a free agent in Boston and had a great year and I priced myself out of there market, at the time.

- Johnny Damon

topic: Boston, Years, Agents, Free Agents

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!'

- Johnny Vegas

topic: Agents, Driven, Type

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

- Joseph Sobran

topic: Government, Agents, Politics

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.

- Joseph Stefano

topic: Hiking, People, Agents

When I read [the script] and saw that it was my fanboy wet dream of an Avengers script and that [Agent] Coulson was a big part of it, that was the great day for me. I just drove around the streets with the script in the other seat, giggling.

- Joss Whedon

topic: Dream, Great Day, Agents, Wet Dreams

I find it weird when [model] agents say, 'You're the only black girl booked for the show. Isn't it great?' Why is it great?

- Jourdan Dunn

source: "Jourdan Dunn Isn’t Impressed With Being The Only Black Model & Neither Should Designers" By Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2014.

topic: Girl, Black, Agents, Black Girl

A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.

- Joy Williams

source: Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.177, Rowman & Littlefield

topic: Thinking, Agents, Enough

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Insecurity, Causes, Agents, Disorientation

Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.

- Julie Benz

topic: Directors, Actors, Agents

It won't hurt you. It's just to kill plants. It's called Agent Orange...and it won't bother humans.

- Karl Marlantes

topic: Hurt, Orange, Agents, Agent Orange

I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.

- Karl Marlantes

topic: Writing, Years, Agents, Matterhorn, Spare Time

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.'

- Kate Mara

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Agents, Broadway, Want

I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.

- Katherine Heigl

topic: Secret, Agents, Sneaky, Secret Agent

I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.

- Kathie Lee Gifford

topic: Hate, Agents, Attorney, Hate Politics, I Hate Politics

There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

- Kathleen Winsor

topic: Advice, Agents, Publicity

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

- Kathy Bates

topic: Wings, Agents, Oscars

After that I got an agent and went on like a million auditions. You win some, you lose some.

- Kel Mitchell

topic: Winning, Agents, Auditions

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.

- Kenneth Burke

topic: Attitude, Use, Agents

I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.

- Kirstie Alley

topic: Agency, Waiting, Agents, Morris

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition...

- Kofi Annan

topic: Girl, Bridges, Agents

To quote Agent Cooper, 'I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.'

- Kyle MacLachlan

source: "New TWIN PEAKS Episodes to Air on Showtime in 2016; David Lynch to Direct" by Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. October 6, 2014.

topic: Ideas, Feelings, Agents, Twin Peaks

I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.

- Laura Carmichael

topic: Girl, Play, Agents

You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

- Laura Dern

source: "Enlightened". Comedy, Drama, 2011–2013.

topic: Agents

You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

- Laura Dern

topic: Running, Agents, Running Away

I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest

- Laura Hillenbrand

topic: House, Hollywood, Agents, Publishing House

For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published.

- Laura Miller

topic: Writing, Editors, Agents

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.

- Leigh Steinberg

topic: Sports, Looks, Agents, Denzel

If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents.

- Leon Panetta

topic: Police, Agents, Force, Police Force, Tax System

Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.

- Lewis H. Lapham

topic: Country, Childhood, Agents

Janie: So you're a double agent? Cabel: Sure.That sounds sexy.

- Lisa McMann

source: Lisa McMann (2010). “Wake”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

topic: Sexy, Sound, Agents, Janie

When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.

- Lorna Luft

topic: Mother, Independent, Agents, Mgm

It's all a matter of how agents want to handle their clients.

- Lorrie Fair

topic: Agents, Want, Matter

I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.

- Louis J. Freeh

topic: Years, Agents, Fbi, Prosecutor, Fbi Agents

No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person.

- Lysander Spooner

topic: Men, Agents, Body, Third Person

Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat.

- Mac Barnett

source: Mac Barnett (2009). “The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

topic: Hands, Experts, Agents, Counterintelligence

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

- Mackenzie Astin

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hero, Use, Agents

Philanthropy can be integrated into business. I believe strongly that companies can be incredible agents of good in the world.

- Marc Benioff

topic: Believe, Agents, World

After Ive 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.

- Margaret Haddix

topic: Editors, Agents, Phases

I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack.

- Mark Rydell

topic: Agents, Als

It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!

- Mark Rydell

topic: Interesting, Agents, World

I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.

- Martin McDonagh

topic: Agents, Want, Given

The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what we must expect from evolution's countless tricks.

- Marvin Minsky

topic: Mind, Agents, Way

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

- Mary Lou Williams

topic: Musical, Band, Agents

To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off over and over again by a bunch of bloodless, second-rate schmoes, schmoes you chose, you elected, is not something anyone will take much pleasure in bragging about.

- Matt Taibbi

topic: Evil, Agents, Plight, Second Rate

The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.

- Matthew Lewis

topic: Actors, Agents, Next

The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.

- Matthew McGrory

topic: Stories, Use, Agents, Casting Directors

If we compare the two, Facebook is currently a superior place to market a product like Slide. Twitter is more like a general distribution agent. It's like broadcast radio.

- Max Levchin

topic: Two, Agents, Radio

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.

- Meaghan Rath

source: "Meaghan Rath Exclusive Interview BEING HUMAN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 14, 2011.

topic: Years, Parent, Agents

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

- Meg Tilly

topic: Ambition, Television, Agents

The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.

- Mercy Otis Warren

topic: Kings, Agents, Addresses, Reception, Personal Influence

When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.

- Michael Caine

topic: Years, Actors, Agents, Young Actors

But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money.

- Michael Polanyi

source: Michael Polanyi (1962). “The Republic of Science, Its Political and Economic Theory: A Lecture Delivered at Roosevelt University, January 11, 1962”

topic: Exercise, Light, Agents, Transmit

The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.

- Michelle Bachelet

topic: Agents, Principles, Proactive, Dissemination

If I ever complain to an agent about anything, he always has a pained look on his face, like, "How can you be so ungrateful? Why, Mick, I just named my yacht after you!"

- Mickey Rooney

topic: Ungrateful, Looks, Agents

Nowadays, it is fashionable for agents to be out. When you call them, they're always "out." It's in, you see, to be out. If they're in, they're out. So, they're always out. That way, they'll be in.

- Mickey Rooney

topic: Way, Agents, Humour

It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.

- Mike Figgis

topic: Healthy, Actors, Agents, Spoilt

We've made a final offer. We hope Ziggy Palffy will come to his senses. We have NO hope his agent will.

- Mike Milbury

topic: Hockey, Agents, Finals

I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

- Millard Drexler

topic: Long, People, Agents