Agent Quotes - page 3

As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity. (William Winwood Reade)
That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment. View quote
Patricia Highsmith
You're a pretty cool customer, huh?" says Agent Hunt. "I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage." Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage. View quote
Holly Black
My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.' View quote
Hugh Jackman
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. View quote
Ben Macintyre
The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, I love children because they're so honest. There is not an agent in the CIA or the KGB who knows how to conceal the theft of food, how to fake being asleep, or how to forge a parent's signature like a child. View quote
Bill Cosby
The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent. View quote
Daniel Steele
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. View quote
Debbie Ford
If your agent or publisher is jumping up and down at the thought of your novel, it's because they're picturing the movie poster on the side of the bus. View quote
Dave Morris
Alzheimer's is a disease for which there is no effective treatment whatsoever. To be clear, there is no pharmaceutical agent, no magic pill that a doctor can prescribe that will have any significant effect on the progressive downhill course of this disease. View quote
David Perlmutter
You can call me Agent Mickelson,' he told me with a smile. 'What about you? Is Max short for something? Maxine?' 'No, Dean. It's just Max. (James Patterson)
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. View quote
Casey Affleck
My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry. View quote
Loretta Young
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language. View quote
Paul de Man
I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right. View quote
Imran Khan
And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this. View quote
Robert Mueller
And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack. View quote
Robert Mueller
I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you. View quote
Donna Summer
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. View quote
Allison Janney
Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea. (Anthony Perkins)
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. View quote
Archie Panjabi
Howard Minsky had gotten the script to her agent prior to my involvement. View quote
Arthur Hiller
Some of the best auditions I've ever had have been when my agent called and said, 'They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something.' I'm not sitting there thinking for a week and a half, before I'm supposed to go in front of a network president to do something. That just gives you time to be nervous. View quote
Billy Campbell
A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing. View quote
Brian Austin Green