Agents Quotes · Page 12

I only take care of the ball game, what happens at the stadium. The rest are my agents who manage.

— Andre Onana

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

— Shirley Knight

The 'ER' role was not Asian-specific, and my agent knew that I loved the show.

— Ming-Na Wen

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

— Grant Bowler

Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros.

— Nolan Ryan

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

— John Sayles

It's what you do that counts and not what you say; therefore I fired my press agent.

— W. C. Fields

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

— George Ade

I was cold-calling agents when I was, like, 9 years old, and I was like, 'Mom, I need this thing called a…

— Matt Bomer

[The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient…

— Paul Murray Kendall

It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban…

— Richard Louv

I think what makes so many other actors miserable is focusing completely on making other plans. They're obsessed with their haircut and…

— Nick Offerman

I'm so used to taping myself and sending it off and never hearing back. I started to believe that nobody actually ever…

— Holliday Grainger

Big news on CNN, a search has uncovered illegal biochemical agents, toxins and other dangerous substances. Not in Iraq, in Rush Limbaugh's…

— Jay Leno

I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the…

— Adolf Hitler

I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a…

— Radha Mitchell

Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had…

— Barbara Kingsolver

As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a…

— Orson Welles

In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral…

— Barton Gellman

I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the…

— Robert Mueller

You should definitely have a travel agent. Why go through all the hassle of dealing with airlines, hotels, and rental-car agencies yourself,…

— Dave Barry

When I finish a book, I'll go to that file and look through them. And I'll say, these are three that really…

— Matt de la Pena

The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I got knockback after knockback at auditions. Just before ‘Mulholland Dr.’ my agent told me I was so intense I was freaking…

— Naomi Watts

I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the…

— Joan Caulfield

Be undeniably good. When people ask me how do you make it in show business or whatever, what I always tell them…

— Steve Martin

Environmental historians . . . insist that we have got to go . . . down to the earth itself as an…

— Donald Worster

I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one…

— Thomas A. Edison

It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they…

— H. L. Mencken

Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There…

— Jefferson Davis

America has shown we are serious about removing the threat of weapons of mass destruction... We now know that Saddam Hussein had…

— Dick Cheney

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

— Ezra Pound

If you want to be an agent of change, it starts with you and what you're made of.

— Michael J. Fox

My agents do not like my choice to work only in New York and Israel - it's not a good career move.

— Mili Avital

Probably your first agent is going to be some guy who also handles dog acts.

— Robert Ben Garant

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

— Rebecca Harding Davis

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

— Bruce D. Perry

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

— Earl Weaver

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

— Mary Lou Williams