“I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.” ShowsKidsUsedWatchesTelevisionTvsMadAgentsAuditions Author:Zosia Mamet
“When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.” YearsYoungActorsTelevisionHollywoodRingsAgentsEveningYoung Actors Author:Michael Caine
“I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing.” IfsThinkingWritingPainFilmCertainViolenceTelevisionDramaIntelligentSakeHolesInstanceAgentsOffensiveTelevision Drama Author:Anne-Marie Duff
“When I choose projects, I don't stipulate between film or theatre or television. I receive scripts and I read scripts - and when I read a script that's good, I then get married to it and talk to my agent about what happens next.” HappensFilmNextTelevisionProjectsMarriedScriptsTheatreAgents Author:Dominic Monaghan
“At first, we lived in very, very small places... with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us in town with a working car. She introduced me to my first agent, and I started with stand-in work, then eventually commercials and television guest-shots.” FirstsEnoughHouseCarTelevisionMomShotsTownsMy MomAgentsGuestsCleaningClean HouseSmall Places Author:Keith Coogan
“I made a decision to live outside the city in northern California. My agent said to me, 'Kid, you're going to make a mint in television movies.' He positioned me, and we picked really good projects, and I cornered that market. They were 20-day projects.” MadeSaidKidsDecisionCitiesTelevisionProjectsAgentsCaliforniaMintCorneredNorthern California Author:Mare Winningham
“I get scripts all the time, but I read this [Baggage Claim] thoroughly, and I loved it. It was light hearted, cute, sweet, and funny. I told my agent that I liked the script, but I did let my acceptance of the role slide a little, until I was watching television one day; scrolling through the stations, and there was this play. And I don't like plays made for the screen. But, this one, "Suddenly Single", caught my attention.” LittlesMadePlayLightAttentionRolesAcceptanceTelevisionSweetOne DayClaimsScriptsCaughtScreensAgentsCuteStationsSlidesHeartedBaggageWatching TelevisionLight HeartedScrolling Author:Jill Scott
“What little reality television I've seen seems to be about economic desperation. Like the marathon dancing of the Great Depression, which should give us pause. People willing to eat flies and worms for a sum that is less than the weekly paycheck of the show's producer. I haven't seen "reality television" that is other than this kind of painful, sadistic exploitation of fit young people looking for agents.” PeopleGivingShouldKindLittlesShowsRealitySeemsYoungEconomicHavensTelevisionWillingFitDancingPainfulProducersAgentsExploitationPausesDesperationWormsMarathonGreat DepressionPaychecksSadisticReality Television Author:Lorrie Moore
“I have always wanted to do daytime television, but past handlers and agents had steered me away from it because they would say to me, "Darius, you have already passed that mark in your career. You have done prime time and feature films and continue to go upward," and I go, "Are you kidding me?".” DoneWantedPastFilmCareersTelevisionMarkAgentsFeaturesPrimeDaytimePrime TimeDarius Author:Darius McCrary
“The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.” GivingDoeCharacterActorsDealsRightsImagineTelevisionDemandAgreeSellsNewspapersIncomeAgentsNovelistsMovieSplitsOwnershipPublishersLunaticManuscriptsCartoonistSyndicateLiterary Agents Author:Bill Watterson
“For those of you that have been following Ultimate Spider-Man, you know how we took that show and brought it to the next level of what Marvel Television is doing. And Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. was the next level of what we wanted to get to.” KnowsMenHas BeensShowsWantedNextLevelsKnow HowTelevisionUltimateFollowingAgentsSpidersNext LevelSpider Man Author:Jeph Loeb
“I couldn't get any work in television. No one would even meet me, and I had very good agents.” TelevisionVery GoodAgents Author:Stephanie Rothman