Welcome to our collection of captivating quotes about agents! Whether you’re fascinated by the enigmatic world of espionage, intrigued by literary or cinematic secret agents, or simply interested in the role of agents across various domains, you’ve come to the right place. Agents, with their blend of mystery, skill, and often intense dedication, have been a staple of human storytelling for centuries, embodying both the allure of secrecy and the thrill of covert operations.
From James Bond’s suave charisma to the intricate machinations of real-life intelligence operatives, agents hold a unique place in our cultural imagination. These individuals navigate the shadows, executing missions that shape history, protect nations, or even unravel conspiracies. Beyond the realm of espionage, agents exist in realms as diverse as the entertainment industry, sports, and business, serving as representatives, negotiators, or influencers. In this compilation, we delve into the words of those who have explored the essence of agents, offering insights, inspiration, and perhaps a glimpse into the clandestine world they inhabit. Discover the wisdom, wit, and intrigue encapsulated in the quotes below.
Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk. Charles Duhigg
I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents. Orville Redenbacher
There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you’re involved in, whether it’s a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things. Gary Gygax
The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes. Herodotus
The casting-couch routine has been going on for ages, from top directors to the lowliest agents. I had to attend a meeting where four actresses filed complaints against the same person over his moral conduct. It’s not a funny situation. Mariette Hartley
I was cold-calling agents when I was, like, 9 years old, and I was like, ‘Mom, I need this thing called a headshot.’ Matt Bomer
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. Stephen Leacock
It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in protecting, or their responsible agents – a maxim not less true in private than in public affairs. John C. Calhoun
I got some cash from agents. I’ve talked to the NCAA. I think that should be legal. I want some money, too; everybody else is making money. I want to go on dates. I want to go buy myself some new suits. I want to buy myself some new sneakers, and I paid the agents back. Charles Barkley
It’s not simply a case of managing players as they used to be any more, because players now are like small companies. You have to deal with their agents and it’s become extremely tough being a manager these days. Gianluca Vialli
Agents recruiting high-school players and talking to high-schoolers – I feel like those are the people who put bad ideas in kids. Joel Embiid
No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. H. L. Mencken
Football agents are evil, divisive scum. Once upon a time I made this proclamation and it ensured a thousand headlines during my ten years as an owner. Simon Jordan
Authors don’t tend to stay with the same agents and editors over their entire lifetimes, but Grafton worked with Marian Wood, her editor at Putnam, from Kinsey’s first outing, and signed with Molly Friedrich, still her literary agent, with the publication of ‘B Is for Burglar.’ Sarah Weinman
I thought there would be more time in my trailer to write during ‘Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.,’ but I seem to be always flying in a harness and conquering supervillains instead. Clark Gregg
When I moved to L.A. and had my first meeting with my agents, they asked me what I wanted for my career. And I didn’t speak English at the time, but I did say, ‘I wanna be Ryan Gosling as a woman.’ So I got very excited to play opposite him. Ana de Armas
Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it. Pierre Bourdieu
I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don’t realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side. Parker Posey
A lot of actors do that – they blame their failure on their agents or their photos. But that is just putting off the real issues. Matt Berry
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
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Grover Cleveland
Women and girls are naturally agents of change. If we teach one girl to code, she will go on to teach more – we’ve seen this in our own programs and workshops around the country. Kimberly Bryant
For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents. Barack Obama
In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy. Harald zur Hausen
Something has to be really cool or funny… for me to think about wanting to do it. I think my agents would probably prefer that I audition for more things. Taylor Tomlinson
I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can. Janet Reno
I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty. Morgan Brittany
The bottom line is that the CIA knew before the war, during and war, and after the war where most of these chemicals were and most of these biological agents. Christopher Shays
The time I’m not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It’s all about the directors. Jessica Alba
Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require ‘educational practices and socializing agents’ even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people’s behavior from their earliest childhood. Germaine Greer
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. Mary Wortley Montagu
The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. Andrew Jackson
Whistleblowers deserve protection, but employees are not federal agents. Eugene Scalia
Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds. Anne Archer
My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts. Gerard Butler
Do FBI Agents and FBI directors have political beliefs? Sure they do. But they’re not supposed to act on them. John Kennedy
Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers. Samuel Smiles
In leaving New York in 1957, I did leave without regret the literary demimonde of agents and would-be’s and with-it nonparticipants; this world seemed unnutritious and interfering. John Updike
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure. Max Weber
We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men. Jane Harman
I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change. A. R. Ammons
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough. Andrew Jackson
If all our agents would abridge their speeches one half, I am satisfied the effect produced would be much greater. The ‘art of leaving off’ at the right time, and in the right place, is one of the most difficult things to learn. William Lloyd Garrison
The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents. Michio Kaku
Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace – all we need is a fighting chance. Hillary Clinton
Joss Whedon and all the writers of ‘Iron Man’ and ‘Thor’ found a way to keep Coulson saying something that keeps you guessing. I’m really lucky because a lot of people play agents and don’t get nearly as much fun stuff to do. Clark Gregg
I do hear about these actors who go on vacations to Bali for three months, and their agents are banging their heads against a wall trying to find their clients – but that’s not me. I’m working hard every day. Enjoy your vacation. Erin Cummings
The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He’s the center of a team – doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on. Emil Zatopek
To become a Secret Service agent, applicants must pass a polygraph exam. But after being hired, agents are never required to undergo regular lie detector testing again. Ronald Kessler
I think that American presidents, that position in itself, as well as American foreign policy, it has terrorism in it. CIA agents going to overthrow certain governments – they’re using terrorist tactics. They’re not going in there like, ‘Hey, you wanna have some cake?’ Lupe Fiasco
Israelis cannot enter Iran, so Israel, Iranian officials believe, has devoted huge resources to recruiting Iranians who leave the country on business trips and turning them into agents. Ronen Bergman
Stath Lets Flats’ at its heart is a character comedy show about a family-run estate agents, but it’s inspired by a real family! Natasia Demetriou
I love to work anywhere, but because there is so much attention after ‘The Square’ my three agents wanted me to quit the play when I did it. I refused as I thought it was an interesting and brilliant play, and I didn’t just want to run straight off to Hollywood. Claes Bang
Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers. Orson Welles
Secret Service agents wear suits to blend in with presidential visits, not stand out. Dan Bongino
And that’s how I wrote to NICAP, but then later, just very soon after that, like three weeks later, we started getting phone calls from government agents. Betty Hill
When ‘Frozen River’ started to get really big, I was four months pregnant. So when these agents and directors wanted to meet me, I was coming in pregnant, and people didn’t really take me seriously. They thought, ‘This woman is not going to shoot another movie again. She’s going to become a mom, and that’s what happens.’ But that was not the case. Reed Morano
The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans. Benjamin Disraeli
I was so naive I didn’t even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call. Kirstie Alley
I don’t like James Bond. They made him a super hero, but he is just an agent, a human being. In my movies, secret agents are more realistic, I didn’t want to portray them in the most glowing colours. King Hu
You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors. Steven Seagal
I totally deplore the notion of an M.D. giving pills to patients – a medical doctor giving psychological or psychoactive change agents to another person. Timothy Leary
Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books. Meg Rosoff
The Biden regime has punched our Border Patrol agents in the face! Lauren Boebert
I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We’d go to the offices of casting agents. Many doors were slammed in our faces. I was just a boy, but I remember that well. Dick Van Patten
These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up. Dave Winfield
What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents – then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice. Tim Berners-Lee
I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn’t even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero. Mackenzie Astin
The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred. Henry Louis Gates
A wiretap allows government agents to collect, listen to, read, rifle through and store emails, snail mail, phone calls, text messages, photographs, bank records – you name it. Sharyl Attkisson
It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don’t know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don’t know what they are spending their money on and they can’t make their own decisions. Gary Neville
It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used. Sun Tzu
God’s interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them. Peter Kreeft
The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world. Ann Voskamp
America’s greatest long-term influence on China comes from playing host to the thousands of students who come from China each year, some of the ablest Chinese scholars and scientists. They will be the most powerful agents for change in China. Lee Kuan Yew
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made. Grover Cleveland
Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity. Joyce Meyer
The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance and culture, are being rightwing. Not just rightwing. Extreme rightwing. I don’t understand how you can be so upset about the Christian right and just ignore the Islamic right. I’m talking about equality. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
When I go to M Bar there’s all kinds of agents there, looking for people who doing good stuff. Bob Odenkirk
If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three. Townsend Harris
Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that’s their job. It isn’t mine. Bernard Cornwell
Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us. Pamela Meyer
The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we’ll do it for nothing. That’s a basic fact – you gotta do it. Morgan Freeman
I really love ‘Fleabag.’ I’ve been harassing my agents, like, ‘Can you please get me a meeting with Phoebe Waller-Bridge?’ I just want to talk to her. Zach Woods
I was driving in a car on my way to football practice, and I was listening to the radio, and they had one of those, like, art showcases, like, ‘Do you want to be a star? Do you want to meet talent agents, managers, producers?’ And I called in, and I drove 45 minutes to Salina, Kansas, to a Marriott hotel, and did a Twizzlers commercial audition. Charles Melton
I thought I was clever by greeting casting agents in my Australian accent and then switching to an American one during the performance. But the Australian accent seemed to put them off. Now it’s the opposite; they love Australians. And with my thick Californian accent I now have a problem convincing them I’m Australian. Jonathan LaPaglia
A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, ‘You’re a pretty good writer and you should probably get these published; when you grow up and write a novel, get in touch.’ Bob Shacochis
I told my agents that I didn’t want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, ‘It’s the coolest show. You have to go.’ Mary Lynn Rajskub
At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don’t grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn’t work, everyone will know. Peter Stone
When I worked in the White House in the 1970s and ’80s, I was often stopped within the White House by agents checking my credentials. They were very observant and would stop anyone they didn’t recognize. Bob Beckel
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. Noam Chomsky
Nobody wanted the ‘Roseanne’ show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat woman and her family. Roseanne Barr
Satan works through human agents. Ezra Taft Benson
We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously. Robert Mueller
I don’t hang out with agents and producers and I’m not into the business side at all. Winona Ryder
We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we’ll achieve a better world. Guy Laliberte
You know, I’m not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood – particularly agents and managers – they’re all in a hurry. Heath Ledger
While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed. Timothy Murphy
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world. Alan Rickman
It’s brutal doing TV and film castings but at least your agents phone and tell you the bad news. If you’re doing West End auditions they just tell you there and then in front of everyone. Joanna Page