Gerard Butler Quotes

Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.

When you're doing a film, your agent and manager spend hours - days - talking about contractual obligations. If you turn up for work and ask for a peeled grape on top of foie gras but you don't get it, you can't get annoyed.

You can't sign just any contract.

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.

Bruce Norris came in twice to audition for 'The Corrections' and subsequently spent many months negotiating every point in a four-year agreement to appear in the show.

I have an agent now.

Success to me was getting out of that contract in one piece.

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.

I never talk about a job before the contract is signed and I've shot the first three days.

It's gonna be a lot of zeroes in that contract. You gonna think it's alphabet soup or something, all those zeroes in there.

I've been in the industry from the age of 9, so I have an agent. That's how you get auditions.

No pay, no Goldblum. That's it.

It's never me saying, 'When is my day over?' It's more, 'When do they legally have to get me off of the lot, based on when I have to be back the next day?' The first call is a big thing in the acting world and in the union world. There needs to be a 12 hour period, and I need it.

My advice after thirty years in the business is sign with an agency of reasonable size.

Get a lawyer to look at your contract or beware. Because no company - evil or not - is going to do it for you.

Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.

My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C.

Your best protection is to have an established agent make the contact.

If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.

I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid.

When you go in to do a screen test, you negotiate your contract and sign all your paperwork before you even get on a plane.

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros.

Thoroughly read all your contracts. I really mean thoroughly.