Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
President Kennedy knew every agent by name. President Johnson knew many of us, but not as many as President Kennedy, probably.
My agent, Jeff Andrews, suggested I write a book. For some reason. he doesn't like it when I'm not doing anything.
I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.
My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.
You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry.
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!'
The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.
I don't get time to hang out with my friends because every time I make a plan, my agent tells me I can't go. I'm used to it.
A lot of the time the film chooses me. I'll be working and I'll get a call from my agent and I'll get the script and then tell him what I think.
I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.
Jack Ryan: I'm not an agent, I just write books for the CIA.
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
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.
If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.
No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship.
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'
Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it.
