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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

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

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.
Glenda Jackson

Money, Him, Goes

I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
Feisal Abdul Rauf

Government, May, Peacemaker

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

What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organise everything for me. I don't want to do things on the Internet.
Jenny Eclair

Good, Travel, Happened

The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.
Michelle Bachelet

Become, United, Democratic

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

Fight, Free, Options

I was almost 8 years old when I was watching a kid on a TV commercial, and I told my mom that I wanted to do the same thing. She said that I would need to get an agent and that she would research it.
Victoria Justice

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.
Leigh Steinberg

Great, Sports, Washington

I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.
Ethan Hawke

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.
John Ashcroft

Able, Sites, Fbi

I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.
Britt Ekland

Time, Mother, Career

You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn't go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.
Josh Turner

Funny, Home, Him

CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.
Floyd Abrams

Work, Hard, Understand

I got in touch with my agent and told him I wanted to start going out on things again.
Tina Yothers

Him, Wanted, Start

The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.
Danielle Steel

Good, Long, Through

There's no slow build anymore where you get a little part, then you get a little better part, then a better part, until one day your agent calls you us and says, 'guess what, you're a movie star,' and you say, 'Thank you!'
Ellen Barkin

Until, Star, Movie

You see, in America, it's quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven years. The maximum any British agent will allow you to have over an actor is three years.
Julian Fellowes

America, Beginning, Three

Originally when I went off to work on 'The Lord of The Rings' I got a call from my agent saying that I was just going to do a voice. But I couldn't really approach it like that. To get Gollum's voice I had to play the character.
Andy Serkis

Work, Character, Saying

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
John Barton

Poetry, Makes, Exciting

Well, I'm a former FBI agent.
Mike Rogers

I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.
Victor Cruz

School, Small, Free

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship.
Sara Paretsky

Book, She, Until

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.
William H. Macy

Job, Said, Wanna

But then one day the Lord put us together through our agent and it's been a wonderful match.
Tim LaHaye

Together, Through, Put

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.
Joe Pantoliano

Off, Read, Fired

Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros.
Nolan Ryan

Contract, Houston, Moss

Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you're waiting for your agent or your manager to call you.
Dylan McDermott

Life, Time, Waiting

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