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It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.
David Ogilvy

Wife, Dishonest, Urge

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

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

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

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

Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.
Heath Ledger

Around, Stuff, Running

I have an agent now.
Lena Dunham

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

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

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
Jonathan Sacks

Change, Cannot, Another

Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.
Robert Duvall

Dream, Actor, Star

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
Elton John

Person, Actor, Sore

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

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

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
Thornton Wilder

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

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

My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job.
Jensen Ackles

School, Father, Job

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

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

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

I used to wear sweats and a T-shirt to auditions, but my agent would yell at me and tell me I had to look nice and presentable. So I had to drop that habit.
Kellan Lutz

Nice, Tell, Used

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

I'll tell you how it happened. The phone rang. Paul, my agent, goes, 'Would you like to play Meryl Streep's?' I said, 'Yeeees! I'll do it, whatever it is.' He said, 'It's Mamma Mia!.' I said, 'Oh no, which character? The fat friend?
Julie Walters

Character, Friend, Play

The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.'
Idris Elba

Character, Him, Why

I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.
Nicholas Sparks

Successful, Easy, Admit

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.
Nicholas Sparks

Read, Might, Ask

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