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My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.
I think I've wanted to be an actress since the day I was born. I even asked my parents for an agent for my seventh birthday!
I think my mom drove by a nuclear power plant when she was pregnant. But I wouldn't be in 'The Station Agent' if she hadn't.
I don't get time to hang out with my friends because every time I make a plan, my agent tells me I can't go. I'm used to it.
I told my parents I wanted an agent, and they decided to let me have a go at it. Then I started working right away. I was 12.
President Trump should be considered to be a useful idiot and a fellow traveler, which makes him an unwitting agent of Putin.
President Kennedy knew every agent by name. President Johnson knew many of us, but not as many as President Kennedy, probably.
There were plenty of clubs wanting me but as soon as my agent Lee Robinson told me Derby were interested I had a good feeling.
Any free agent that would be afraid to play with Kobe Bryant is probably a loser, and I'm glad they wouldn't come to the team.
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.
My dad was an FBI agent. My mom and dad were straight arrow types, and I had a conservative, suburban Orange County upbringing.
People don't realize how much money you have to spend: styling, publicity, a manager, and your agent. That's a chunk of change.
When I was six years old, a children's agent moved in next door to us, sent me out on a commercial audition, and I got the job.
When I was little, I asked my mom to move us to Los Angeles and get me an agent. She would say, 'Stop it. Go play in the dirt.'
In soap, fatty acids made from boiling pork bone fat are used as a hardening agent, but also for giving it a pearl-like effect.
I took one class at Second City called Improv for Actors, and that was it, and that was only because my agent told me I had to.
Most religions assume that you find purpose through some agent that sits above or outside the world and imbues it with purpose.
I want to earn a contract. I don't want a contract because in the next year I'm a free agent, so they might look to tie me down.
By the time 'Dumbo's Circus' wrapped production of its 120 episodes, I had an agent, and I had scored my first feature film gig.
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.
The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.
At first, when my agent told me, 'They want you to do an interview, a piece for '60 Minutes,' I was like, 'What is '60 Minutes?''
If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million.
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.
Like any other actor, my agent called me with an opportunity. It just so happens that the opportunity was the lead in 'Star Wars.'
I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
The whole concept of the travel agent is absurd. They appear to be agents of the traveller but are actually agents of the airlines.
Porcupine Tree is a band, and it's not up to me where the band goes - it's between the manager, our agent, and the band as a whole.
Trump is going to be the change agent. Hillary Clinton is going to be the status quo. Bernie Sanders is not going to be in the mix.
I just go my own way. If my agent calls and presents me with something, and I find it refreshing or illuminating, yeah, I'll do it.
Girls were scared of me because I can be loud. Barbara, my wife of 51 years, is very low-key. She was my picture agent's secretary.
I have the best agent, manager, publicist, acting coach, and lawyer. Without them, I wouldn't have the opportunities that I've had.
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.
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
I truly believe that art can be an agent of change and has been, throughout history, a tool to enlighten the individual and society.
I live in a small town in Connecticut, and they don't write scripts there, but I get them anyway because my agent is in Los Angeles.
After Cannes, my agent told me to get the next flight to LA. He was right. I had a part in 'Prime Suspect 3' by the end of the week.
When I was growing up, government was the agent of change: it was a developing country. What was important was to make a difference.
There is no editor or agent or person with a sack of money that will magically come down and give you motivation to make your thing.
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
I get asked to give stuff to my dad. I'm, like, 'I'm not gonna pass your script to him!' You know? My dad's my dad. I'm not his agent.
I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then.
We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans.
For a year after I left Cambridge, I had an agent, and I was working in a pub and doing waitering. But I could stay at home rent-free.
Being a mentor and a leader, I've always urged guys, if you're ever allowed to be a free agent, to take advantage of that opportunity.