I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
It's all a matter of how agents want to handle their clients.
I couldn't get any work in television. No one would even meet me, and I had very good agents.
A lot of times if you want to get another agent, agents actually make you do monologues in their offices. They still do that! You've got to come up with something!
I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.
Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love
Our call is to be God's agents, to rescue not only the human race but the whole of creation.
[Hillary Clinton] had put her favoured agent, Sidney Blumenthal, on to that; there's more than 1700 emails out of the thirty three thousand Hillary Clinton emails that we've published, just about Libya.
Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.
By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice.
I am. . . for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.
All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York.
Unless we as social change agents come from a certain kind of spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.
Basically, actors arrive in a bubble. They have a little sealed bubble around them and it's basically [comprised of] their agents, their last film, their next film, their press agent, and their per diems - all these things, they cocoon themselves with and you have to puncture that bubble on each of them to make them be in your film.
If people could deal with each other honestly, they would not need agents.
A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
A player has no use for an agent. None.
As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.
Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.