Agent Representation Quotes

Getting an agent is hard, and I also think people rush to get an agent too soon.

I believe Washington should be a more active participant focusing on the issue of why corporate shareholders and mutual fund shareholders are not given fair treatment by corporate management and mutual fund management. We need to develop a national standard of fiduciary duty to ensure that these agents, if you will, are adequately representing the principles - pension beneficiaries and mutual fund shareholders - whom they are duty bound to serve.

I had a couple of agents, but then I went on my own. I thought I could negotiate my own deals and it was probably my biggest mistake.

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

I've been a free agent a couple times now. It's a process. You got to be smart with your decisions.

I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.

Maybe self-publishing is going to be an extra step added to publishing. Maybe what's going to happen is you self-publish a book, someone notices it - an agent? - and it goes from there into the traditional sphere.

I was joking with my agent that I'm going to get typecast for a water-disaster actor.

Every player looks forward to free agency.

I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed.

After two years of sending out query letters and failing to get an agent, I made friends with an author, who was nice enough to introduce me to his agent. That got my foot in the door.

My brother is an agent, so he is in the business. Is he my agent? No, no, no. That would never work.

I had no agent, and I was getting approached by so many people that I tried to escape for a while because I couldn't believe that world. Photography is not an industry, and suddenly an industry came to me, so I sort of had to accept it in the end and get an agent.

'Fresh' was maybe the third audition that I had after I got an agent, so I was crazy excited when I booked it.

I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.

I didn't have an agent until I got 'Hairspray.' I had to get a Broadway show without an agent to get an agent.

I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.

I have so many really gifted friends, actors who I thought deserved as much as I did to get an agent or a job, or deserved more, and just never made it through somehow. I've always been really fiercely tethered to that. You know, I've been very lucky. All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

I don't want players coming in from the college level that are either trying to avoid a suspension, declare themselves ineligible on their own, hire an agent and decide, 'I'm going to enter into the NFL.'

My advice after thirty years in the business is sign with an agency of reasonable size.

I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

The 'ER' role was not Asian-specific, and my agent knew that I loved the show.

A lot of people talk about clubs but if something happens the club will know and will inform me. If one club wants to buy me we will have to sit together to take the decision.