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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.
Loretta Young
Money
,
Real
,
Big
When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.
Francesca Annis
Young
,
System
,
Lawyer
I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.
Helena Bonham Carter
Life
,
Control
,
Thought
I have an agent now.
Lena Dunham
Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.
Heath Ledger
Around
,
Stuff
,
Running
My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.
Johnny Vegas
Down
,
Playing
,
Ask
My agent once said, 'You're not very driven.' And it's true. I'm not the type to ring up and go, 'Get me this part!'
Johnny Vegas
True
,
Said
,
Once
The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
Danica McKellar
Business
,
Give
,
Show
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
Thornton Wilder
Secret
,
Actor
My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.
Lillie Langtry
Wonderful
,
Quiet
,
Paid
I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.
Kristen Stewart
Funny
,
Work
,
Movies
An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
Elton John
Person
,
Actor
,
Sore
Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.
Robert Duvall
Dream
,
Actor
,
Star
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.
Yukio Mishima
Truth
,
May
,
Become
When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.
Salma Hayek
Good
,
Career
,
Him
I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
Rachel Weisz
Change
,
American
,
Advised
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
Walter Bagehot
Simply
,
Ambassador
,
Spectacle
No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.
Julie Burchill
Sad
,
Woman
,
Control
Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'
Ryan Reynolds
After
,
Another
,
Actually
I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.
Christopher Meloni
Movies
,
Give
,
Big
An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.
Jane Seymour
America
,
Working
,
Lose
Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
Barbara Kingsolver
Life
,
Mother
,
Saying
I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.
Nicholas Sparks
Successful
,
Easy
,
Admit
When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.
Lorna Luft
Mother
,
Sign
,
Contract
I only became a celebrity because I had a kid. Before I was pregnant nobody cared. I joke to my agent that having a baby made my career.
Busy Philipps
Career
,
Before
,
Joke
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.
Dominic Monaghan
Good
,
Talk
,
Between
I mean, I've always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that.
Todd Barry
Mean
,
Stage
,
Interests
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
Gloria Swanson
Money
,
Nothing
,
Real
My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
Sally Field
Good
,
Movies
,
Enough
My agent and I try to be picky with roles so that I can drive my career in different directions and be different, creative characters. I want to be an actor for the rest of my life and to have fun with my career. So I told him that I wish I could do a movie that already has a fan base. And then 'Twilight' came along!
Kellan Lutz
Life
,
Fun
,
Career
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