#agent

What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!" "Yeah.That was me. I set the boat alight." "What?" "I set fire to the boat." "But we're on the boat!" "I know. ↗

— Anthony Horowitz

#alex-rider #sarcasm #sarcasm

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

#had #host #i #lawyer #now

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

#anymore #better #build #calls #day

Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#always #certain #conversations #each #happens

Even my agents say, We don't know what this business is anymore. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#anymore #business #even #know #say

Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket. ↗

— Uwe Boll

#asking #dollars #millions #millions of dollars #sell

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#agents #bribe #care #come #conduct

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty. ↗

— Morgan Brittany

#because #big #down #i #lost

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#agents #allow #being #discouraged #either

My agent says that I'm a 'repeat business guy.' If you hire me to come do a movie, I'll be on time, know all my material, be ready to go, have a good attitude. I'm here to work, so I get hired over and over again by the same producers. If you just be a team player on set you can work so much more often. ↗

— Dean Cain

#agent #attitude #business #come #get