I've said no to a lot of things I'd like to have done. My…

I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.'

— Billie Whitelaw

I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange…

— Hamilton Jordan

My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't…

— Ashley Madekwe

In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write…

— Isabel Allende

In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to write a…

— Glen Duncan

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

— Laura Dern

Anuj Bahari has always been a really good literary agent for me. What a good agent does is that he manages many of your…

— Amish Tripathi

To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order.

— Robert Rodale

Every imperial agent wants to reduce what is possible to what is available.

— Walter Brueggemann

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

— Mary Lou Williams

I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had…

— Dean Norris

When it comes to transfers, I leave everything with my agent.

— Hulk

The short story and the truth is that I was taking vocal lessons here in New York... One day, instead of my lesson, the…

— Lesley Gore

I don't know if I'd want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it's exciting and romantic and all that. Really, most…

— Dennis Quaid

I remember when I was younger. Dad's agent came round, and I asked if she would represent me. She didn't represent children at the…

— Eleanor Tomlinson