Agents Quotes - Page 10

• When I first started acting in movies - as probably a lot of naive young actors do - I made a list of directors that I wanted to work with and sent it to my agent at the time.

  Justin Bartha

  Acting, Actors, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat.

  Saffron Burrows

  Nice, Two, Paris

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

  Laura Carmichael

  Girl, Play, Next

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• Free Agents' was an awesome experience. I never play the glam girl in anything, so that was a new experience. I would walk into one of my trailers and it would be like Spanx, a spray-tan gun, and chicken cutlets. I would have hair extensions. It was hilarious. Every day felt like I was turning into an awesome drag queen.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Girl, Queens, Gun

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• 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.

  Townsend Harris

  Country, Order, Two

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• God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.

  Peter Kreeft

  Earthquakes, Miracle, Events

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• 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.

  Zachary Knighton

  College, Careers, Fellowship

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• 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

  People, Negative, Said

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• 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.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Years, Play, Acting

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

  Matthew Lewis

  Actors, Next, Call Me

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

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• 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

  Two, Radio, Slides

  "Max Levchin on Slide’s big virtual goods bet, scams and — mating". Interview with Kim-Mai Cutler, venturebeat.com. November 5, 2009.

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• It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible.

  Richard Louv

  School, Kids, Community

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• I've done movies that I've been advised not to do. 'Dog Soldiers,' the movie I did 11 years ago now, I remember my agent at the time was like, 'You shouldn't do that. It's a weird film about werewolves,' and it became a cult hit.

  Kevin McKidd

  Dog, Years, Soldier

  "Kevin McKidd Talks About 'Bunraku'". Interview with Rebecca Murray, www.kevinmckiddonline.com.

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• I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.

  Zosia Mamet

  Kids, Mad, Watches

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

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• I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.

  Dean Norris

  Jobs, Couple, Acting

  Interview with Joel Keller, tv.avclub.com. October 6, 2011.

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• As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.

  Navid Negahban

  Waiting, Actors, Who We Are

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• My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.

  Tea Obreht

  Supportive, Faculty, Colleagues

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• When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.

  Vanessa Lengies

  Dad, Thinking, Video

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• No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Teacher, School, Government

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• Whenever something good comes up that sounds like I could be part of the project, my manager and my agents send me in on it.

  Tyler Posey

  Sound, Projects, Come Up

  "Tyler Posey and Crystal Reed Exclusive Interview Teen Wolf (MTV’s Reboot Airing in 2011)". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 19, 2010.

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• I only became a celebrity because I had a kid. Before I was pregnant nobody cared. I joke to my agent that having a baby made my career.

  Busy Philipps

  Baby, Kids, Careers

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

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• 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.

  Sara Paretsky

  Book, Names, America

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• I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.

  Donna Summer

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• 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

  Editors, Letters, Foxes

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

  Christy Carlson Romano

  Change Agent

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