Agents Quotes - Page 36

• Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Kids, Parent, Used

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• We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world.

  Guy Laliberte

  Nice, Believe, Garden

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  The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Stars, Sleep, Men

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• 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

  Drawing, Salary, England

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

  Heath Ledger

  Running, Climbing, Tights

  Interview with David Michael, www.bbc.co.uk. September 25, 2003.

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• You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry.

  Heath Ledger

  Hollywood, Knows, Managers

  Interview with David Michael, www.bbc.co.uk. September 25, 2003.

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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, Sweat, Looks

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• 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

  Fun, Twilight, Character

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• Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right. To that end, they need to take on a mentoring role. This means the brand provides the tools, techniques and strategies for their customers to become more effective marketers in achieving their own goals.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Mean, Goal, Empowering

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• I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Inspiration, Wish

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• 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

  Giving, Cameras, Salary

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• 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

  Couple, Boys, College

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• No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

  H. L. Mencken

  Years, People, Records

  Chicago Tribune, 19 Sept. 1926.

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• Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Insecurity, Causes

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• The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.

  Tom Morello

  Mom, Real, Kids

  "Tom Morello on solo album, politics and racism". Interview With Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2011.

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• I received a phone call; my agent got a phone call from Ryan Murphy saying he wanted to talk to me... And he basically outlined 'American Horror Story' for me and said that there's a character named Larry the Burn Guy, and I'd like you to play it.

  Denis O'Hare

  Character, Phones, Horror Stories

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• We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

  Barack Obama

  Friends, Gay, Blue

  Keynote address at Democratic National Convention, Boston, Mass., 27 July 2004

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• For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Tyrants, People

  "The War on Libya and US Foreign Policy: Ronald Reagan, 1986 versus Barack Obama, 2011". Interview with Rick Rozoff, www.globalresearch.ca. March 28, 2011.

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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, Advertising, Consumers

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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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.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Dad, Eye, Scripts

  Interview with Dave Calhoun, www.timeout.com.

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• My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Mom, Dad, Actors

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• A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

  Ramakrishna

  Men, States, Knows

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• 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

  Believe, Government, May

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• 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

  Believe, New Orleans, Sitting

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• Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

  Alan Rickman

  Book, Differences, Making A Difference

  "Alan Rickman on 'Nobel Son'". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. December 04, 2008.

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