A Quote by Thornton Wilder

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

Thornton Wilder

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Thornton Wilder
American - Novelist
April 17, 1897 - December 7, 1975

'The Secret Agent,' Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel about an anarchist plot to blow up the Royal Observatory at Greenwich - in fact, a scheme by a secret police agent to stir up a government backlash - has acquired a kind of cult status as the classic novel for the post-9/11 age.

Tom Reiss

I was doing a lot of web design at the time. And anybody that has an agent thinks, "Why do I need an agent?" Maybe it's a little different as an actor - of course you need an agent - but any kind of agency that's selling something for you, you think, "Why can't I sell this myself? It doesn't make sense."

Jeff Vespa

I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.

Katherine Heigl

Putin, I believe, was actually born to be a KGB agent. And I say born because I think that his father was also an agent of the secret police in Russia.

Masha Gessen

Owen Wilson is an actor, but think of him as a sort of secret agent. He has an offbeat, indie-movie sensibility. Every so often, however, he infiltrates some big-budget movie he clearly doesn't belong in - 'Anaconda,' 'Armageddon,' 'The Haunting' - and struggles valiantly to stop it from sucking.

Jeff Giles

I fired a bunch of people and kind of went back to my roots. I fired my agent - I had this big, fancy agent and a big fancy manager and a big fancy lawyer - and I went back to my first agent and said, "I want to go back to just being an actor."

Matthew Lillard

It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their agent, their agent calls their manager, the manager calls back, the actor sends someone to the manager... then you get, 'Yeah, yeah, I'd love to have dinner at six,' and all I wanted was coffee! It can take, like, six days to get coffee.

Daniel Espinosa

My father was an actor, and my mother was his agent, so I had it on both sides: the crazy actor and his representation.

Christian Slater

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.

Sun Tzu

It's important that the actor doesn't feel like they're working in a vacuum. If the actor is told, 'Oh, it's a secret; just play it this way or that way,' it's a bit patronising. I think you have to bring the actor into your thinking and explain things.

Jed Mercurio

I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.

Laura Amy Schlitz

You see, in America, it's quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven years. The maximum any British agent will allow you to have over an actor is three years.

Julian Fellowes

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

David Byrne

The secret lies in the actor's personal satisfaction. How can the audience be moved by a character the actor himself does not believe in?

Saswata Chatterjee

What's difficult for American audiences is that they're used to a system here where you can get an actor for five years or even seven, and that is signed for at the audition. Whereas in England, no agent will give you an actor for more than three years.

Julian Fellowes

A gun in the hands of a secret service agent protecting our president isn't a bad word.

Wayne LaPierre

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