A Quote by W. C. Fields

It's what you do that counts and not what you say; therefore I fired my press agent. — © W. C. Fields
It's what you do that counts and not what you say; therefore I fired my press agent.
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."
Some years ago, I fired my agent, Andrew Wylie, alias The Jackal. I want to stress this wasn't an amicable parting of the ways or a hankering on my part for fresh representation. I fired him because his agency wasn't doing enough for me.
She said, “I’m going to have you fired.” I had two people say that to me today, “I’m going to have you fired.” Go ahead, be my guest. I’m wearing a green velvet costume; it doesn’t get any worse than this. Who do these people think they are? I’m going to have you fired!” and I wanted to lean over and say, “I’m going to have you killed.
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!
Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files.
The Mutakallemim... apply the term non-existence only to absolute non-existence, and not to absence of properties. A property and the absence of that property are considered by them as two opposites, they treat, e.g. , blindness and sight, death and life, in the same way as heat and cold. Therefore they say, without any qualification, non-existence does not require any agent, an agent is required when something is produced.
A guy who gets fired and humiliated in the press can lose a lot of confidence.
Even the White House has a press agent.
When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.
My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies." I said, "You're fired."
Censorship has been my best press agent my whole life.
When Wealth walks in at the Door, the Press Agent comes in through the Window.
It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.
Press agent - a man who hitches his braggin' to a star.
Of course I had a piece of luck I couldn't have imagine for myself in a million years: I got an agent. That sped up the process. I'd say it's a good idea, getting an agent.
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