Celebrity Management Quotes

Celebrities have been using MySpace since the site's launch and it's a natural extension for us to now offer them an aggregated channel where they can be in control of their own image.

I think Justin Bieber should let me executive produce his album.

I must have Haley Joel Osment as my agent, because he only sees dead parts

The Muppets are no joke. They are for real. Each one has an agent and manager and all that stuff. I'm not even kidding.

Asher Roth lived on my couch for six months to build up a following. With Justin Bieber, I moved him and his mother to a town house a block away from me.

When you are working on the launch of an actor, you have to treat him or her like your own child.

Don't tell me that Colonel Parker or Brian Epstein didn't tell a little lie from time to time.

I got, like, Diane Keaton's manager, and she was very connected; she had power. And she was like, "Your star is in tears on this comedy. Do you even notice that at all?"

When I was managing Cream and the Bee Gees at the same time - when they were playing stadiums all over the world - it was very wearing.

Now the kids are portrayed as dirty when they talk to an agent, a shoe guy, some hanger-on. Well, it's only natural that people are circling them - there are millions of dollars involved.

Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.

I do say I'm a specialist in divas. Name a diva - I've worked with 'em.

CAA has a great history of representing fantastic talent, many of whom are my heroes in film and television.

Many American TV actors employ agents, managers, business managers, publicists and stylists, and are now adding digital media manager to the list. Their job is to reach out to the fans, managing websites, Twitter feeds, Facebook and Wikipedia.

I'm probably the only member of the 'Bachelor' cast without an agent!

I've met plenty of CMOs in life, and I always say that I've never met any that can hold a candle to rock stars, who I truly believe are the greatest brand managers in the world.

I represent celebrities, but I am not a celebrity.

When you have too many stars, you have too many egos to manage, and it's difficult.

If I'm intimidated, I shouldn't be directing a movie. I gotta treat 'em as characters, not as stars. It's hard to not treat Marlon Brando as a legend, a star, it's difficult not to treat Robert De Niro as a star, but that had to go away very fast after I knew them, because I had to work with them. I'm the director, I'm the boss. They're looking to me for guidance.

When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile.

Can't do any work with a rock star; you have to go through their lawyers and their agents and their managers and you have to book them hotel rooms. When you work with your friends, you just call them up and they come over and you record and then you go out to see a movie.

When you're working with movie stars, part of the deal is that, if they have something to say, you'd better listen. You don't have to absolutely listen and not talk, but there is another creative force at work, and to be successful working with movie stars, you have to bring that force to work for you. You have to find something that's comfortable for them, and at the same time, that's in the parameters of what you're trying to do yourself.