Talent Agent Quotes

#1. Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Oliver Goldsmith

#2. What we find as we listen to the songs of our rage or fear, loneliness or longing, is that they do not stay forever. Rage turns into sorrow; sorrow turns into tears; tears may fall for a long time, but then the sun comes out.

Jack Kornfield

#3. I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.

Patrick Dempsey

#4. My aunt was a fashion model and I happened to go to her agency with her, one day, when I was five. A talent agent said, "You should come talk to us." I did a few things. I did an indie movie and commercials, and stuff.

Ellar Coltrane

#5. I saw a door that said exit only. So I entered through it and went up to the guy working there and said "I have good news. You have severely underestimated that door over there. By like a hundred percent."

Demetri Martin

#6. Gemma." He shakes his head. "This is happening between us.

Julie Johnson

#7. Once people were born alive and slowly they died. Now one is born dead and slowly has to come to life.

Roberto Bazlen

#8. ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. This is why they say you should look before you leap. They say a lot of things. Carpe diem. Even platitudes contradict each other. Man, this has to be the longest fall ever if I have the time to think all this.

Swati Avasthi

#10. It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.

John Hurt

#11. For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.

Rachel Kushner

#12. At one point, Lucille's agent wanted to have me fired, telling her that my eyes were bigger than hers. When I head this, I told her that if I had her looks and talent, I'd keep me and fire the agent!

Vivian Vance

#13. It's a truth universally acknowledged that an FBI special agent in possession of great skill and talent is likely to engage in trash talk every now and then.

Julie James

#14. And when I finished my story, Nesta merely stared at me for a long while before asking me to teach her how to paint.

Sarah J. Maas

#15. Sometimes it's good to be the smartest rat in the sewer.

Michael Houbrick

#16. I want all of you, Dallas. Every single piece. Even the ones I broke.

Kate Stewart

#17. In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.

Shawn Amos

#18. If you believe in democracy, are you not thereby obliged to accept, without discrimination, the fall-outs that come with a democratic choice, even if this means the termination of the democratic process itself?

Wole Soyinka

#19. We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.

Denis Waitley

#20. An entrepreneurial spirit makes you someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business enterprise, talent or calling to become an agent of change.

Archibald Marwizi

#21. around her slender waist.

Chip Hughes

#22. My brother's friend worked at a TV station, so we went in; the producer of a show asked if I wouldn't mind taking some photos for his wife, who was a talent agent. Next thing I know, I'm enroute to the agency.

Godfrey Gao