Agent Quotes

the truth was that I had become a secret agent because I could not bear for another minute the pointlessness of life in the real world. — Charles McCarry

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging. — Joseph Sobran

Learn your audience and know how to reach them and don't sign anything without a good lawyer and a capable agent. — Vantile Whitfield

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. — Domhnall Gleeson

CHAPTER XLV THE TRUSTY AGENT — Charles Dickens

Janie: So you're a double agent? Cabel: Sure.That sounds sexy. — Lisa McMann

Politics is a dirty, ruthless business, Agent Robie. It makes the intelligence sector look relatively honorable by comparison. — David Baldacci

Most religions assume that you find purpose through some agent that sits above or outside the world and imbues it with purpose. — Matthew Stewart

President Kennedy knew every agent by name. President Johnson knew many of us, but not as many as President Kennedy, probably. — Clint Hill

I'm an agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service. I do not do booby traps. — Ally Carter

They introduced themselves as Agent Jones and Agent Brown - their real names, I later learned, though at the time I didn't believe them. — James K. Morrow

I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine. — Bebe Moore Campbell

I still have my agent back in Australia keeping an eye on things there, and we are trying to find the right job which will bring me home to shoot. — Margot Robbie

When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition. — Natasha Calis

And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState. — Larry Wall

No one gave me the secret decoder ring on how to make friends. — Sharon E. Rainey

I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent. — Barbara Steele

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? — Anthony Hopkins

Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can't help their careers, then they're not going to be interested. — David Steinberg

I am by profession an agent and no writer, so you will have to pardon any lack of literary flourish. — Julian Darius

I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my parents if I could have an agent for Christmas. — Meaghan Rath

Each natural agent works but to this end,- To render that it works on like itself. — George Chapman

The human mind is the principal agent of creation. How we think is the prism for how we perceive reality. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Some days I am the complete third person- the secret agent. Nobody knows I'm there, yet I know everything. — Anna Paszkiewicz

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance. — William James

I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed. — Grant Bowler

Do you usually show so little self restraint, special agent? Or do you ask all the girls to marry you? — Tate Hallaway

My agent once said, 'You're not very driven.' And it's true. I'm not the type to ring up and go, 'Get me this part!' — Johnny Vegas

Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea. — Anthony Perkins

Now that I'm a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that's what pleases me. — James Blish

Approximately four years ago, we were told that Jerry Rice would be a free agent and there were people who felt that he no longer could contribute. — Al Davis

That wouldn't be a first, now would it?"
"Jean."
"Jean Grey is dead, Agent."
"Yeah, that'll last. — Joss Whedon

The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom. — Thomas A. Edison

If life is a stage and you are your own agent, then don't hesitate to play the character you wish to play. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you. — Donna Summer

When I first got an agent, they gave me some advice
lose weight. — Jennifer Aniston

I'm fine, love. Agent Grady just needed a cuddle. And possibly a piece of my spleen. — Abigail Roux

I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky. — Katherine Heigl

I have never discussed a player contract with an agent and I like to think I never will. — Walter O'Malley

I recommend doing some sort of acting class, something that can eventually get you in front of an agent or a manager, and practice is very important. — Bridgit Mendler

I tell my agent that I want to read everything. — Jena Malone

Anbody can make an easy deal, but only a true agent can sell a dog. — Irving Paul Lazar

Whether you're an obstetrician or a third-grade teacher or a real estate agent, you know when you're doing good work. You're passionate about it. — Susan Isaacs

I took one class at Second City called Improv for Actors, and that was it, and that was only because my agent told me I had to. — Timothy Simons

Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat. — Mac Barnett

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent. — Jonathan Sacks

I got my equity card, found my agent, and then I got a part on 'Gilmore Girls.' That turned into a job that kept giving - they wrote more for me. — Todd Lowe

In soap, fatty acids made from boiling pork bone fat are used as a hardening agent, but also for giving it a pearl-like effect. — Christien Meindertsma

Vengeance is one of life's great motivators. — K.S. Brooks

I love trains. It's the only way to travel anymore where it doesn't involve a TSA agent slowly tracing the curve of my inner thigh. — Bill Maher

been a loyal agent to this — Winter Renshaw

Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn — William Shakespeare

A travel agent told I could spend 7 nights in HAWAII no days just nights. — Rodney Dangerfield

The key to being a great agent is treating everyone like a celebrity and treating a celebrity like everyone else. — Michael Houbrick

Everybody is fucked up and we are all freaks in our own ways-Agent Reed — C.J. Roberts

But - Why didn't you say?"

"Secret agent. Secret. — K.J. Charles

Awareness is the greatest agent for change. — Eckhart Tolle

Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Hector? You call him Hector?"
"Well, I can hardly call out, 'Agent Chavez, oo Agent Chavez,' When he makes me climax, now can I? — Kristen Ashley

The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions. — John Henry Holland

Sometimes it's good to be the smartest rat in the sewer. — Michael Houbrick

In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God. — George F. Will

The church is called by God to become God's agent of deliverance in every nation — Sunday Adelaja

To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning. — Michael Shermer

He who is not sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agent.s. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get the truth out of them. — Sun Tzu

The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. — Michelle Bachelet

The high point of the act is when he (Uri Durov) puts his head inside the bear's huge jaws. I wouldn't even try that with my agent. — Bob Hope

I'm always an agent or a lawyer or a doctor or a banker. I'm always wearing a tie. — Peter Jacobson

How can you possibly be an agent of positive change in the world when you are full of bitterness and hatred? — Anita Heiss

You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change. — Laura Dern

Her mom had become some sort of a genius double agent since she hooked up with Richie. It was like she was keeping them all alive behind his back. — Rainbow Rowell

I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it. — William H. Macy

The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal. — Rod Serling

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that. — Alan Rickman

I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego. — Charisma Carpenter

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books. — John Hodgman

My dad was an FBI agent. My mom and dad were straight arrow types, and I had a conservative, suburban Orange County upbringing. — Steve Breen

As an agent, I functioned like a guy. But the fact that I was a woman affected everything. — Sue Mengers

When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans. — Ann Leckie

Tara: So what does "Captain Britain's agent" actually do?
Wisdom: Between you and me, Tara, it's work, work, work. I'm in charge of Brian's hair. — Paul Cornell

The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent. — Wes Smith

Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros. — Nolan Ryan

I was on vacation in New York when my agent called asking if I wanted to go right in and audition for 'Billy Elliot,' so I was lucky to be there. — Lilla Crawford

Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself. — Dashiell Hammett

My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.' — Sally Field

If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law. — Henry David Thoreau

I got an agent when I was 16 up in Vancouver, Canada. — Jessica Lowndes

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent. — Thornton Wilder

How the agent explained this to me was, we weren't targeting the smartest people in the world, just the most. — Chuck Palahniuk

It's very nice having my mum as my agent. You know that she's always doing what's best for you. — Freddie Highmore

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script. — Anthony Hopkins

Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. — George W. Bush

You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.' — Daniel Woodrell

I went to my agent and told them, 'I want to be on another Disney show.' — Kyrie Irving

Cayl replies ... I understand the human reproductive system, Agent Denning; I'm here to capture a killer, not indulge in these intrusive human senses. — Tielle St. Clare

Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or ... So everybody understands the hours. — Julie Benz

You don't live until you begin to live for keeping — Sunday Adelaja

TV dramas function as vehicles for remodeling female subjects for the new social order - in other words, as an agent for change. — Jie Yang

It won't hurt you. It's just to kill plants. It's called Agent Orange ... and it won't bother humans. — Karl Marlantes

Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature. — Dana Stabenow