#agent

I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot. ↗

— Donnie Wahlberg

#any #auditions #before #big #big movie

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 #fat #friend #goes #happened

In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#because #double #fat #feel #girl

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

— Tina Yothers

#agent #going #got #him #i

I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#attorneys #deals #hate #i #meeting

I speak to my agent about great roles, and he's like, 'They are all going to Will Smith.' ↗

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

#agent #going #great #i #like

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#agents #deal #fame #i #lawyers

After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#again #agent #anywhere #draft #editor

I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#actually #agent #even #experience #extremely

We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men. ↗

— Jane Harman

#cia #dialects #fbi #fbi agents #intimidated