All Quotes

My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.
‐‐ Yul Vazquez

My advice to young actors is to push yourself and to aspire to be great.
‐‐ Adriane Lenox

My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction.
‐‐ Dhirubhai Ambani

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!
‐‐ Frank Capra

My advice to young people is to get something that's growing because that's how you get career opportunities thrown at you that you don't deserve, if you will... that come at you early because the firms need you.
‐‐ Hamilton E. James

My advice to young people wanting to make music and to be in this industry is to really spend your time making music. Make so much music you have no friends. Make music. Figure out what it is you love, and... because if you're making cool art, then everything else will fall into line.
‐‐ Lorde

My advice to young people who want to act is just to do it as much as you can! Find friends who also want to do it and have readings of great plays in your apartment. You don't have to wait for someone else to tell you that you can do it. You can be getting better on your own all the time.
‐‐ Sarah Steele

My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.
‐‐ Dan Gable

My advice today, to established acts and new-coming acts, is the same advice I'd give to myself: pause for a minute, and really think about 'What is your goal? Where do you see yourself?'
‐‐ Trent Reznor

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.
‐‐ Joanna Trollope

My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope that inspired people to never give up.
‐‐ Jackie Evancho

My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.
‐‐ David Schwimmer

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.
‐‐ Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

My aesthetic is I love anything in the late 1800s, early 1900s.
‐‐ Troy Nixey

My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.
‐‐ Jackie Chan

My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.
‐‐ Dusty Springfield

My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits.
‐‐ George Shearing

My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his prose pulsates with life force, and I'm in debt to him every time I invest inanimate objects with uncanny animism. But his female characters annoy me.
‐‐ Michel Faber

My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it.
‐‐ Brad Pitt

My African heritage is a part of reggae music roots, and the concept is that the album, 'Revelation Part 1: The Root of Life' is a tribute to roots reggae music. The fruit is what blossoms into different colors and shades, but the root has to stand predominant.
‐‐ Stephen Marley

My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
‐‐ Paul Cezanne

My age and my phone number are both unlisted.
‐‐ Robert Osborne

My age has so little to do with my image of myself because at a certain point, the number just didn't fit how I felt. It has become irrelevant to me. I just don't feel like that number is representative of my spirit, of my energy or my anything!
‐‐ Christie Brinkley

My age is very insignificant to me. I don't think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.
‐‐ Aurora

My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
‐‐ Najib Mikati

My agenda is trying to help people live a better life.
‐‐ Jillian Michaels

My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
‐‐ Laura Hillenbrand

My agent and I try to be picky with roles so that I can drive my career in different directions and be different, creative characters. I want to be an actor for the rest of my life and to have fun with my career. So I told him that I wish I could do a movie that already has a fan base. And then 'Twilight' came along!
‐‐ Kellan Lutz

My agent asked if I fancied Robin Hood and I thought: 'Yeah, why not?' I hadn't watched it, to be honest, but I'd seen bits and knew it was really popular Saturday family viewing with heaps of action. I thought it would be great fun. I was up for a good old play-fighting and the scripts were terrifically exciting.
‐‐ Joanne Froggatt

My agent hates my directing career!
‐‐ Kevin Connolly

My agent in London says all New York films are wonderful if they're really New York films because they're like travelogues.
‐‐ Israel Horovitz

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.
‐‐ Alicia Vikander

My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth.
‐‐ Christoph Waltz

My agent, Jeff Andrews, suggested I write a book. For some reason. he doesn't like it when I'm not doing anything.
‐‐ Colin Mochrie

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!'
‐‐ Johnny Vegas

My agent said, 'Jerry, Dancing With the Stars - they want you on there.' I said, 'Ain't no way. I'm not going to do that.' Then he came back to me again, and he kept putting pressure on me. I said, 'All right, I'll give it a try.'
‐‐ Jerry Rice

My agent said that every Monday after an episode of 'Entourage,' at the staff meeting at the agency, that's all they do is talk about the episode the night before.
‐‐ Kevin Connolly

My agent said that I was one of the top three busiest people in the country.
‐‐ Casey Kasem

My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.'
‐‐ Hugh Jackman

My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
‐‐ Sally Field

My agent says that I'm a 'repeat business guy.' If you hire me to come do a movie, I'll be on time, know all my material, be ready to go, have a good attitude. I'm here to work, so I get hired over and over again by the same producers. If you just be a team player on set you can work so much more often.
‐‐ Dean Cain

My agent sent me the script and I loved it. I wondered how they would turn me into a chimp. My agent said it would probably not entail to much time. Just some hair and make-up. I found out that it was not so simple.
‐‐ Kim Hunter

My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.
‐‐ David Prowse

My agent Sue realised after 'Cold Feet' that I could have spent the rest of my life doing similar roles. So she was instrumental in moving me away from that.
‐‐ James Nesbitt

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.
‐‐ Kathleen Quinlan

My agents and my managers are very good at whittling things down to the things they think I would be good at and that I'd respond well to, and that includes theater, TV and film. Whatever it is, if the material is right for me, then I'll go for it.
‐‐ Dominic Sherwood

My agents do not like my choice to work only in New York and Israel - it's not a good career move.
‐‐ Mili Avital

My aggression out there is my weapon. I think it's more letting them know that I'm not going to let them get away with something, and I'm not just going to kind of poke it back and be content to stay in rallies.
‐‐ Andy Roddick