Agency Quotes

We can destroy only as creators

No one is coming to save you.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.

I didn't even choose to be born! It was my parents' decision to have a child.

Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.

If nothing we do matters... , then all that matters is what we do

In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one day and he said he had auditions for someone my age. He asked if I would be interested in doing some.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.

For me, it's enough that I have the first and last word.

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

You can't make people respond.

I confess I've never felt like a passenger.

Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

No puppet. No puppet. You’re the puppet.

Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our own doing.

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.