“I actually did an Agatha Christie monologue for my audition showcase at Guildhall, and that's how I got my agent. Some people said 'ooh it's old hat' and 'too risky'. Some people think she's all about the narrative and thriller aspect at the expense of character and I disagree. I did it anyway and it worked well.” PeopleThinkingWellsSaidCharacterAspectAgentsNarrativeHatsExpensesDisagreeAuditionsThrillersMonologuesChristieShowcase Author:Thomas Howes
“Ridiculous as our market volatility might seem to an intelligent Martian, it is our reality and everyone loves to trot out the 'quote' attributed to Keynes (but never documented): 'The market can stay irrational longer than the investor can stay solvent.' For us agents, he might better have said 'The market can stay irrational longer than the client can stay patient.'” SaidRealitySeemsMightIntelligentPatientRidiculousAgentsInvestorsClientsIrrationalOne LoveMartiansVolatilityKeynes Author:Jeremy Grantham
“When I first met my agent, I said, "If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette."” IfsFirstsSaidAgeLike YouPersonalityFitMetsCome UpAgentsRangeBlondeBrunette Author:Tia Carrere
“I fired a bunch of people and kind of went back to my roots. I fired my agent - I had this big, fancy agent and a big fancy manager and a big fancy lawyer - and I went back to my first agent and said, "I want to go back to just being an actor."” PeopleWantFirstsKindSaidBigsActorsRootsLawyerBunchAgentsManagersFancyJust Being Author:Matthew Lillard
“My agent called me and said, they watched you do Chopped Champions and they thought you'd be good for this competition. What do you think? And I said, well, what do you think? He said he thought it would be great and I said let's do it. When you decide to do this, you don't really think that you're going to win it. I thought it would be fun, good to test my mettle; games are fun like that. Why not? I'll try it.” ThinkingTryingWellsSaidWould BeGamesWinningFunTestsCompetitionBe GoodAgentsChampionWhy NotMettle Author:Geoffrey Zakarian
“I want to retire in New York, let's be quite frank. I think a lot of people jumped the gun when I said I wanted to be a free agent. And yeah, I want people to come to play in New York. I want them to want to play in New York. I want New York to be that place where guys want to come play.” PeopleThinkingWantSaidPlayWantedGuyNew YorkGunYeahAgentsRetiringFrankFree Agents Author:Carmelo Anthony
“The White House encouraged Tom Brady to be more of a role model. They would've said more, but there was a drunken Secret Service agent streaking across the Rose Garden.” SaidHouseWhiteSecretRolesModelsGardenRoseAgentsWhite HouseRole ModelsTomsSecret ServiceBradyRose Garden Author:Jimmy Fallon
“I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right.” IfsWayArtSaidBookWould BeEnergyLanguageTroubleBrotherProveAmbitionSolutionsCriminalsSuperiorsObservationAgentsMy BrotherReasoningDetectivesDeductionsVerifyArmchairsNo Energy Book:The Best of Sherlock Holmes Source: The Best of Sherlock Holmes
“Afterwards I said Chris Webber was going to leave as a free agent and Sacramento would go back to expansionism.” SaidBasketballAgentsNbaSacramentoFree Agents Book:Shaq Talks Back Source: Shaq Talks Back
“When I first met with agents, they said, "Okay, you're going to play plumbers and mechanics and bus drivers and farmers. Go."” FirstsSaidPlayMetsOkayAgentsDriversBusFarmersThey SaidMechanicPlumberBus Driver Author:Nick Offerman
“No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person.” MenPersonsSaidBodyThirdsAgentsInjuryThird Person Book:No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard Source: No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard
“In 1998, the acting roles suddenly bottomed out. I was no longer getting scripts; even my agent stopped calling. When I finally got him on the phone to ask him what was going on, he paused, then said: 'Well, Christine, you're 45.' I got rid of him.” WellsSaidAsksActingRolesCallingScriptsPhonesAgentsChristine Author:Christine Ebersole