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.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million.
When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests.
I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.
If I'm two pounds heavier, I'm fat. If I'm skinnier, I'm sick. It's ridiculous. And that's not coming from agents or designers.
As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.
My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I'd rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I'm kind of boring.
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
