I'm so used to taping myself and sending it off and never hearing back. I started to believe that nobody actually ever sees my tapes, apart from my agent.
I have a great management team and great agents that assist me, and I take roles in feature films that I hope will show my other talents other than just comedy.
But then one day the Lord put us together through our agent and it's been a wonderful match.
I am still in touch with my Secret Service agents, most of whom are retired now. They really get to be your friends. They watched me grow up, and most of them had little kids, so I was kind of giving them a warm-up of what was coming.
I didn't have an agent, I didn't have a headshot. I didn't even know if anyone would know where to find me. I just went back to high school and started playing with my band.
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions.
The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal.
My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch. ' I had six months of not very productive time with her, so I changed agents. The new one said, 'Why aren't you using your family name? It's a real attention-grabber. ' I worried, 'How much is it going to cost to put my name in lights?' But then I decided that's not my problem.
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.
The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it.
When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been and all that you will be in the future.
Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.
I took an acting class for 10 seconds before I played a lead in a student movie. I showed the film to an agent who said he would send me on interviews but wouldn't sign me.
No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may avail himself of the agents offered him by nature, to invest matter with utility.
My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.
You're a pretty cool customer, huh?" says Agent Hunt. "I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage. " Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.
What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organize everything for me. I don't want to do things on the Internet.
All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed. . . and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I. R. S.
Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to its agents the marvellous faculty of having precise ideas of a god composed of so many contradictory qualities?