Quotes About My Manager

#1. When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!

Li Na

#2. Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

Waylon Jennings

#3. My manager always preaches golf comes first.

Bubba Watson

#4. I have worked with a lot of different great people. One of the things my partner, my manager Judy Weinstein, instilled in [David] Morales and myself is that the quality goes in before the name goes home.

Frankie Knuckles

#5. My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it's true.

Beth Orton

#6. My manager says we've been working with the FDA on this.

Carlos Gonzalez

#7. I'm a musician with a very unique mental state, I suppose. I'm agoraphobic. I'm scared to leave my house. I haven't been alone in, like, two years. I'm either with my boyfriend or my assistant, my manager or my tour manager. I won't go anywhere by myself; I'm too terrified.

Halsey

#8. Oh, there's all these rumors that I'm a lesbian. I have a boyfriend now, Brandon Blackstock; my manager Narvel's son, Reba McEntire's stepson.

Kelly Clarkson

#9. When I was sent the script for 'Homeland,' I didn't think anything of it. Three months later, my manager rang and said: 'They are interested in you.' I read it and I realised, 'Yes, I do want this.' Then I got an email saying I'd got it.

David Harewood

#10. My manager is definitely a mentor as well as Usher.

Justin Bieber

#11. Every interview I do, it's basically 'how did he do it,' and I owe it all to my representation, and my manager is basically like my mother, she's so picky.

Jamie Bell

#12. My career did start in the Spanish language industry, and that's probably because my father is my manager. He pushed my career in the direction he knew best.

Jencarlos Canela

#13. I was working as a cocktail waitress in a heavy metal bar. Then, my manager said I should try some acting, which led to an audition Satisfaction, where I played a musician in an all-girl band. That movie is where I met my future ex-husband Jody Porter.

Britta Phillips

#14. My dad doesn't like to admit it, but he's the ultimate stage dad. He likes to see himself as my manager even though he's not. I tell him to calm down at least twice a week. The day of the Tony nominations, I honestly thought he was having a heart attack.

Brandon Uranowitz

#15. My manager came up with the name 'State of the Industry,' and it was just one of those things. It just took off. Well, I don't know about 'took off.' I'm not in the stratosphere.

Andy Kindler

#16. I started taking lessons in third grade because I thought it was a fun thing to do. Through my acting teacher, I got my manager. That was about 5th grade. So once that happened it kind of clicked that I probably should pursue acting as a career ...

Jared Gilman

#17. Grateful to The Kerry Gaynor Method for saving my manager's life. He quit smoking thanks to their genius Method.

Steve Aoki

#18. When I was a little kid playing baseball, my manager called me Sleepy. And only a few people, who know me from way, way back, call me that still. I used to drift off and that's why they made me the catcher, so I wouldn't fall asleep. That gift I have still.

Bill Murray

#19. Five minutes before I went on, I looked at my manager and said, I'm going to get booed. I know it's going to happen. And you're responsible because you put me on here. It was horrible. I've never been more hurt in my entire life.

Shannen Doherty

#20. I ended up meeting my manager because my sister was a receptionist at a management company. My manager is actually my same manager that I have today. That's how it started. I worked my way.

Katie Cassidy

#21. My manager makes fun of me for the fact that I avoid the money, I'm allergic to money.

Martin Starr

#22. My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.

Grimes

#23. I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.

Joe DiMaggio

#24. I wouldn't recommend working with your partner for everyone, because it's tough. There's got to be a really keen balance. You've got to know when to stop being the manager and become the husband. I can't go home and complain to my husband about my manager.

Gloria Estefan

#25. My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.

Solomon Burke

#26. I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.

Michael Rady

#27. My manager, who is a very timid person, often tells me that I should think before I speak. I tell her that she should actually have the guts to speak up about the things she thinks.

Miley Cyrus

#28. My manager has season tix to the Dodgers, four seats to 40 games, and they're right behind the plate, I mean, they're amazing, food and waiter service, which is insane.

Nate Corddry

#29. Everyday I wake up I'm fulfilling my dream. Every day my manager calls I'm fulfilling my dream. I know if my manager doesn't call I'm not making money so when he does call I know I'm making money.

Yung Joc

#30. I think my manager of 30-some odd years now, Tom Hammond. He's as fine a person as you could ever meet. And he's had great theatrical taste and has influenced me that way.

Bernadette Peters

#31. My manager sent me the first two scripts for 'True Detective,' and I just thought they were so interesting and that the world they were depicting was so titillating to me.

Cary Fukunaga

#32. I start to wish that my weed was laced with something that will kill me, but I know it's not. It's the pure stuff I buy from my manager at work, so I try to be the first guy to die from straight marijuana.

Gisele Walko

#33. My manager said it would more effective against left-handed hitters. It seemed to me that was impossible to do without the high leg kick, which I started that day.

Juan Marichal

#34. I used to make my manager Jamie not tell me where I was going to be the next day, because I was so afraid of flying and of anything. But now I love flying, I love working hard, I love being around the world.

Ellie Goulding

#35. My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the character. I grew up on Stephen King, and I love his whole aesthetic of the classic American story with supernatural events happening, so it just made sense.

Alexander Koch

#36. Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.

Joan Baez

#37. I'm open to any collabos if the price is right, just hit up my manager.

Yukmouth

#38. Everybody - even huge movie stars - have downs. That's just how it is. The work ebbs and flows. My manager and I were saying, 'Let's remember that in 2013 we were soooo busy.' So whenever it is that we're not, maybe it'll come back again. Maybe it won't. But you've gotta love the ride.

Betsy Brandt

#39. But when the 'Glee' audition came around, my manager literally had to talk me into it. I was petrified to sing in front of anyone.

Cory Monteith

#40. Anywhere my manager tells me to go, I go.

Dascha Polanco

#41. We originally developed 'The Client List' along with Lifetime as a TV movie - my manager and I became partners on the project. Then, we brought in Howard Braunstein on the project and produced it along with Lifetime.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#42. If women could ejaculate, I would have exploded hot jizz all over my manager's face. Instead, I hugged him. (about getting the SNL gig as a writer)

Sarah Silverman

#43. I feel like I have an amazing support team, between my husband and my nanny and my parents, who are very involved with my kids. I also have an incredible creative team with my manager, agent and publicist.

Melora Hardin

#44. I knew [Jesse Owens'] name, but I really didn't remember what it is he had done, so I felt like I had to get refreshed. So I read the script and I realized like, wow, this is an incredible human being. I told my manager, however I had to do it, let me see the director; I got to play him.

Stephan James

#45. My manager has a car payment, so I work every night.

Carrot Top

#46. 'Drive' came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, 'You've always talked to me about Albert wanting to play the heavy. I think he should read this.' My ears just perked up.

Albert Brooks

#47. I can talk to my dad like he's my manager, and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've been doing it since I was 13.

Jessica Simpson

#48. When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light.

James Denton

#49. Something I realized when I moved to America: people get these general American accents, but when they get angry or upset or excited, their original accents come out. It's something I noticed with my manager, because he's from New York, and the first time he got angry, he suddenly had this accent.

Margot Robbie

#50. I had sent out 100 audition tapes within 365 days, and then I got the 'Dope' audition. When I sent that out, two days later my manager called me and said they wanted to fly me out to L.A. to audition.

Shameik Moore

#51. The people who I grew up making music with, we've all grown up and become successful in different ways. My manager supported me since I was 16 and believed in me as a musician. He's been there since Day 1, and there's so much to be said about doing something with people that you love.

Skrillex

#52. When I first got the call from my manager asking if I'd ever heard of Jesse Owens, I recognized the name, looked him up, and was blown away by his story.

Stephan James

#53. Over the years, I would go to my agents, my manager, and I would say, 'Hey, there's this amazing true story about this gay English mathematician who committed suicide in the 1950s.' And they would be like, 'Please don't ever write that script. That is an unmakeable film.'

Graham Moore

#54. My manager introduced me to the 'Rise to Honor' team. I was curious about what it took to be involved in video games, a completely new form of entertainment to me.

Jet Li

#55. So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me.

Jon Secada

#56. Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.

Damien Chazelle

#57. I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'

Taylor Swift

#58. There's no one else I would rather have as my manager than my mom because I know that she has our best interests at heart. Sometimes, it's hard to separate manager mode from mom mode. I think as our manager, my mom will get more emotional about situations than she would if she was just our manager.

Kourtney Kardashian

#59. I have been fortunate to get some really good scripts over the years and I haven't turned down anything that I regretted so far. And my manager who I've been with for over 25 years is very good at knowing what I should and shouldn't do a lot of times.

Billy Bob Thornton

#60. As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'

Jeffrey Tambor

#61. My first real break was meeting my manager, Julie Gibson. She's the one that introduced me to Ford and Innovative and got me started.

Daniella Alonso

#62. I'm constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music.

Rivers Cuomo

#63. I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy of mine wake me up if I have to be somewhere. It's a serious issue! I've been very late for some serious gigs because of it!

Jesse McCartney

#64. I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.

Christina Applegate

#65. Goodlife was originally a ski management/athlete management company. I have a couple friends who are sponsored for skiing and my manager linked up with their manager. We worked out a deal, because they wanted to branch out into music and culture.

SonReal

#66. I'm still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but that's just the way I am.

Ariel Rechtshaid

#67. My dad heard of a studio on the radio, and it was advertised as a place for kids to meet kids, and it was actually a studio, and that's where I met my manager and agent.

Mila Kunis

#68. She's very active. My mom is my manager and handles day-to-day business to keep the DeGarmo machine up and running! She's a huge, huge part of my career and my life.

Diana DeGarmo

#69. I peeled off La Brea and went home and instantly made a reservation to come back to New York. Essentially, I fired everybody that was in my life, my agent, my lawyer, my manager, my girlfriend and came back to New York.

Steven Shainberg

#70. My general sensibility is most certainly comedic. But when I signed with my manager, he said, 'I think you could do dramatic stuff as well.' So, rather than making the choice to do it, I sort of agreed and deferred. By no means does it feel close to home, but I was willing to explore it.

Benjamin Koldyke

#71. One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.

Shawn Colvin

#72. My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on.

Jonathan Brandis

#73. Shit, this woman's scary. I'm glad my manager's the short one with the wispy hair and the shaking hands. Milo knows how to get stuff done, but he's about as terrifying as a goldfish.

C.M. Stunich

#74. My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager.

Anna Kournikova

#75. What the hell do you have on?"
Emily looked down at her ensemble. "I have done something wrong, haven't I?"
"Did Tinker put you up to this?"
"Well, she said it was my manager uniform."
"You...you look like an oversexed librarian."
She blinked. "Is that a bad thing?

Bella Street

#76. Whenever something good comes up that sounds like I could be part of the project, my manager and my agents send me in on it.

Tyler Posey

#77. I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.

Robert Smith

#78. I received a letter from the Reich Ministry of Sports. They want me to split from Joe Jacobs, my manager since 1928 ... I really need Joe Jacobs. I owe all my success in America to him.

Max Schmeling

#79. I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!

Maddie Hasson

#80. My manager said, "Don't use liquor as a crutch!" I can't use liquor as a crutch, because a crutch helps me walk.

Mitch Hedberg

#81. Honestly, six months before getting 'Orange Is the New Black,' I remember telling my manager I was done.

Selenis Leyva

#82. The one who actually decided that I should keep my name was my manager, Erv Woolsey.

Lee Ann Womack

#83. Right before I left New York, I had my manager tell me, 'You need to get a girl on your arm, or people will start talking.'

Sean Maher

#84. My favorite comic book growing up was 'Thor.' It was one of my three, favorite comic books. Obviously, Marvel is such a huge name, but for me, to book a role in a Marvel movie, and for it to be 'Thor.' When my manager told me I booked 'Thor,' I literally didn't know what to say.

Joseph Gatt

#85. I remember my manager telling me, 'Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first'. Those words were very helpful.

John Boyega

#86. I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I'm laughing about it now!

David Cassidy

#87. You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the dough, though. But having said that, there's a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn't great.

Aimee Mann

#88. Allison Janney's character in 'The West Wing' was so rocking! I am a huge fan of Mary Louis Parker and her character in 'Weeds.' My manager says, 'you have to grow into yourself, Allison' because all the characters I want to play are, like, 39.

Allison Mack

#89. One time I picked it up and a voice goes, 'Hi, it's Sinatra. Can you play me a record?' I was like, 'Oh yeah, very funny,' and hung up. I thought someone was having a joke, but it was actually Frank. My manager told me there aren't many people who put the phone down on Sinatra.

Tony Blackburn

#90. Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater.

Mariska Hargitay

#91. I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music.

Erik Hassle

#92. My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts.

Gerard Butler

#93. Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.

Macaulay Culkin

#94. I told my manager, 'If we can't do the things now that we want to do, what good is the power? ... Let's test it and try to get the things done that we believe in.'

John Travolta

#95. My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

Maggie Q

#96. My manager and fellow YouTuber, Mike Lamond, encouraged me to start a YouTube channel as a way to practice speaking, entertaining, and being more comfortable in front of a camera. In the beginning, I used an $80 dollar flip-camera and edited every episode myself.

Rosanna Pansino

#97. There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting 'nose-to-nose' was part of my job description.

Doug Harvey

#98. I bet him he wouldn't get 15 league goals and I'm going to have to change my bet with him. If he gets to 15 I can change it and I am allowed to do that because I'm the manager. I'm going to make it 150 now!

Alex Ferguson

#99. Bury My Heart is a life-altering approach to turning managers into unconditionally committed leaders.

Stan Slap

#100. For example, for me, my brother helped me get a manager, which I don't take for granted. It's tough getting a manager, let alone one that actually cares about you and is smart. But from there, no one's going to cast me just because I'm James Franco's little brother.

Dave Franco