Sue Mengers Quotes

#1. I always had a weight issue since I was a young kid.

Josh Peck

#2. I was really shy when I was younger, so my mom got me into an acting class to see if I would open myself up more in front of an audience. Her plan was for me to just talk more.

Moises Arias

#3. Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

Gertrude Stein

#4. A powerful studio boss doesn't want to be bested by a woman, even in chess. And a successful agent steps on a lot of toes. You lose actors jobs so you can get them for your own clients.

Sue Mengers

#5. A country, a style or an epoch are interesting only for the idea behind them.

Christian Dior

#6. We're all ghostwriters, my boy. And it's not just our memories. Our actions, too. We all think we're in control of our own lives, but really they're preghostwritten by forces around us." ========== Ghostwritten (Vintage Contemporaries) (Mitchell, David)

Anonymous

#7. Africa is underpopulated. We have 20% of the world's landmass and 13% of its population.

Mo Ibrahim

#8. It seems to me that the most fundamental mistake most parents make with children is to expect them to be grateful. Children are never grateful ... The 'sacrifices' you made were not for them, they were for you.

Billie Burke

#9. Stars are rare creatures, and not everyone can be one. But there isn't anyone on earth - not you, not me, not the girl next door - who wouldn't like to be a movie star holding up that gold statuette on Academy Award night.

Sue Mengers

#10. The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. Sleep and death, two twins of winged race,
Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.

Alexander Pope

#12. As an agent, I functioned like a guy. But the fact that I was a woman affected everything.

Sue Mengers