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“You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?”

White Poor Generations Agents Trash Lambs White Trash Starlings

“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.”

Thinking Way Agents

Author:Elizabeth Banks

“No, I never thought of it in those terms. I used to go into agents' offices and they'd have pictures of these handsome movie men and I knew I'd never be up there. I'm a journeyman actor. I didn't think about stardom.”

Thinking Men Used Actors Term Office Agents Handsome Stardom

Author:Eli Wallach

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

Hate Deals I Hate Meetings Agents Attorney Hate Me I Hate Politics Hate Politics

Book:I Can't Believe I Said That!: An Autobiography

Source: I Can't Believe I Said That!: An Autobiography

“I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women who are good at doing comedies, as well as dramas.”

Wells Comedy Drama Agents France Hunters Hollies

Author:Rachael Harris

“I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.”

Love Said Character Age Careers Actresses Agents France Aspire Kate Emma Jessica Laura Madeline

Author:Rachael Harris

“I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.”

Thinking Love Said Age Wanted Opportunity Happened Stage New York Tvs Actresses Agents Chekhov

Author:Rachael Harris

“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.”

Accepting Acceptance Agents Invoke

Author:Debbie Ford

“I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents.”

Way Jobs Film Certain Actors Difficult Agents Blonde

Author:Sandra Oh

“Studio press agents make up anything they want to, and reporters go along with it. One flack created the legend that I had been blown up in an air crash during the war, and my face had to be put back together by way of plastic surgery. If it is a 'bionic face,' why didn't they do a better job of it?”

Ifs Way Want War Together Jobs Faces Air Presses Studios Agents Legends Plastic Crash Reporters Surgery Back Together Plastic Surgery Better Jobs Bionics

Author:Jack Palance

“I’ve always said to my agents and stuff, like, it’s going to be 10 years before people forget about Twilight, And that’s totally understandable. Normally people keep working and working until their big break. You just keep trying to make the best of your decisions. Like I try to think how I used to think before all the Twilight movies.”

People Thinking Trying Years Said Bigs Used Stuff Decision Forget Break Agents Twilight Keep Trying Twilight Movie

Author:Robert Pattinson

“I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent”

Sea Agents

Author:Victoria Principal

“Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction”

Satisfaction Agents

Author:Victoria Principal

“I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that”

Men Play Together Three Talent New York Theater Competition Dinner Golden Agents Routine Ponds One Liner Maine Juggling

Author:Patrick Dempsey

“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”

Bigs Goes On Offers Shots Bottom Agents Auditions Grassroots Big Movie

Author:Donnie Wahlberg

“Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.”

Years Made Past Hollywood Lawyer Agents

Book:Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews

Source: Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews

“Ive never been a popular person, but it doesnt matter. I have everything in my life that I want. Im not a walking publicity stunt. Im not an anarchist, or bitter. Im not trying to be subversive. I just try to remain unguarded, unprotected by fear, and agents and publicists, and I feel comfortable that way.”

Way Want Feels Trying Persons Matter Walking Comfortable Bitter Agents Publicity Anarchist Subversive Publicists

Author:Vincent Gallo

“I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.”

Want Said Jobs Agents Oscars Nominations

Author:William H. Macy

“I had a traditional interview based on a phone call from an agent. He says there's a show and they would like to see you and its called Dallas. With very little knowledge I go over to this meeting at Warner Brothers.”

Littles Shows Brother Meetings Phones Traditional Agents Interviews Phone Calls Dallas Little Knowledge Warner Brothers

Author:Steve Kanaly

“I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.”

Needs Fighting Sports Havens Agents Exclusive Promoters Free Agents

Author:Sugar Ray Leonard

“When I'm in power, here's how I'm gonna put the country back on its feet. I'm going to put sterilizing agents in the following products: Sunny Delight, Mountain Dew, and Thick-Crust Pizza. Only the 'tardiest of the 'tards like the thick crust.”

Country Feet Products Mountain Delight Following Agents Thick Pizza Sunny Dew Mountain Dew

Author:Adam Carolla

“I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.”

Bigs Lost Agents Managers Turned Down Big Movie

Author:Morgan Brittany

“Even my agents say, 'We don't know what this business is anymore.'”

Knows Agents

Author:Tom Berenger

“My agent told me they were casting for the voice of Gollum. I hadnt read The Lord of the Rings, but I read the script and realized what an amazing role it was. I developed a voice for the audition tape, then met Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh at the auditions and fell in love with them both.”

Voice Lord Roles Mets Scripts Rings Agents Peter Tape Auditions Casting

Author:Andy Serkis

“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.”

Want Stills Young Girl Roles Ready Honestly Agents Want Me Not Ready

Author:Ashley Tisdale

“Anyone who would ever think of using any other Realtor would be making an enormous mistake. Goodwin & Thyne Properties is the best real estate company with the best and smartest real estate agents and the best people to do business with!”

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Author:Andy Romano

“An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more!”

Years Play Young Half Saws Mom My Mom Hearing Agents Annoying

Author:Marla Sokoloff

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Burden Agents Publicity Swedish Norwegians

Author:Christopher Heyerdahl

“Would you pick me? I am so much my own agent, it would be - its inconceivable.”

Would Be My Own Picks Agents Pick Me

Author:Newt Gingrich

“I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the inside and that's worst of all. I tried to avoid being natural. I lowered my voice. I copied the mannerisms of other stars. I struck poses. I received bad advice - from dramatic coaches, from agents, and from studio executives. I stopped being a human being. I blame myself and I blame Hollywood's star system.”

“Music has to be recognized as an…agent of social development in the highest sense, because it transmits the highest values - solidarity, harmony, mutual compassion. And it has the ability to unite an entire community and to express sublime feelings.”

Feelings Values Social Community Ability Compassion Development Highest Harmony Agents Mutual Solidarity Sublime Social Development Transmit

Author:Jose Antonio Abreu

“God knows the needs of his children, and he often works through us, prompting us to help one another. When we act on such promptings, we tread on holy ground, for we are allowed the opportunity to serve as an agent of God in answering a prayer.”

Knows Needs Children Helping Opportunity Prayer Holy Agents God Knows Holy Ground

Author:Kathleen H. Hughes

“Watch carefully the children around you. In precious moments you will catch a glimpse of your Savior’s face. Listen intently and you will hear his voice. Walk gently among them; his footprints are all around you. Embrace them, for you are embracing him. Respect them, because they are sometimes God’s agents – exactly the kind of instruments he needs. At such times, only a child will do.”

Needs Kind Children Sometimes Moments Faces Voice Walks Watches Instruments Embrace Agents Savior Glimpse Footprint Precious Moments

Book:Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most

Source: Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most

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

Real Seven Agents Estates Brokers

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“Let me start off by saying that in 2000 I said, 'Vote for me. I'm an agent of change.' In 2004, I said, 'I'm not interested in change - I want to continue as president.' Every candidate has got to say 'change.' That's what the American people expect.”

People Want Said President Vote Let Me Agents Candidates Not Interested Bushism Vote For Me

Author:George W. Bush

“I mean, I've always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that”

Mean Interest Stage Agents

Author:Todd Barry

“I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.”

College Directors Summer Agents Casting Monologues Showcase Casting Directors Conservatory

Author:Randy Harrison

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

Presses Agents

Author:W. C. Fields

“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.”

Use Used Force Hero Violent Agents Auditions

Author:Mackenzie Astin

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

Firsts Film Hell Five Agents Gates

Author:Shirley Knight

“Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.”

Produce Materials Iraq Agents Officials Nerves Saddam Hussein Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Wmd Mustard Wmds In Iraq

Author:George W. Bush

“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.”

Desire Agents Be You Numb

Book:Jenny Holzer: writing

Source: Jenny Holzer: writing

“Theres no hope, none, of ever talking about it without pissing somebody, if not everybody, off...By the end of this hour I will be seen by many as a terrorist sympathizer, a Zionist tool. A self-hating Jew, an apologist for American imperialism, an orientalist, socialist, fascist, CIA agent, and worse.”

Ifs Ends Self Hate Hours Talking Tools Jew Terrorist Agents Socialist Imperialism Cia Fascists No Hope Zionist American Imperialism Cia Agents

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent.”

Seems Young Asks Causes Player Findings Starting Yesterday Agents Ask Me League Starting Over Starting Out

Author:Sue Wicks

“Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.”

Humans Imagination Perception Agents Prime Brainstorming Human Imagination Power Of Imagination Lateral Thinking

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly towards all, benevolently to those who fall within our way, respecting sacredly their rights, bodily and mental, and cherishing especially their freedom of conscience, as we value our own.”

Way May Values Fall Acting Moral Rights Conscience Honestly Agents Cherish

Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Published by Order of Congress from the Original Manuscripts Deposited in the Department of State

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Published by Order of Congress from the Original Manuscripts Deposited in the Department of State

“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.”

Firsts Persons Lying Interest First Time Profession Fats Agents Journalist Telling Lies

Book:Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London

Source: Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London

“I'm very harsh on real estate agents. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because of how the call every small house 'charming' and every run-down house a 'great fixer-upper'. Just once, I'd like them to show me a house and declare, 'This one's a piece of crap'.”

Real Shows Running House Pieces Agents Not Sure Crap Charming Estates Harsh Show Me Estate Agents Fixers

Author:Stephan Pastis

“A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.”

Might Asks New York Months Letters Agents Typical Manuscripts Queries

Author:Nicholas Sparks

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