Robert Ben Garant Quotes

I told my parents I wanted an agent, and they decided to let me have a go at it. Then I started working right away. I was 12.

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

I don't have an agent - I have the William Morris Agency.

I wanted to draw and do costumes. I was prepared to train for that, but I needed something to do on my time off from high school, so I called an agent without telling anyone and started working with her.

I mean, I've always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that.

My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job.

I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.

My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.

The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.

I got an agent when I needed one, when I had a contract negotiation for the first time. I was doing the Second City E.T.C., and I got invited to audition for the last season, it turns out, of 'In Living Color.'

Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Hollywood, that's where the power was.

I didn't have an agent before 'Parks,' and once you're on a show, they're not going to make money off of you. So if you've already booked something without an agent, unless they really want to hustle during the downtime, there's seven months when they're not going to make money off of you.

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

CAA has a great history of representing fantastic talent, many of whom are my heroes in film and television.

I didn't get an agent until after 'Last Comic Standing' - of course, getting on a show like that will get you attention.

I have an agent and everything. I audition occasionally.

Agents run a business, and their business is their talent; some are more general and broad and can rep a little bit of everything; some are more niche. You have to be specific with who you approach and how.

I am in the theatrical profession myself, my wife is in the theatrical profession, my children are in the theatrical profession.I had a dog that lived and died in it from a puppy; and my chaise-pony goes on, in Timour the Tartar.

There's nothing that I love to do more than act and I feel really lucky to be in the position that I'm in, being able to do it as my job! If I ever do anything other than act, it will be in show business.

Only when you get into TV and film, do people really want you to be a 'specialist'.

Broadway isn't a very big career move. There's no money in it and it doesn't mean anything to your career. It's just a nice little jewel in the crown.

I have never had anything that I can remember in the business - and that includes all the movies and the stage shows and everything - that I didn't enjoy. I didn't like some of the small-time vaudeville, because we weren't going on and getting better. Aside from that, I didn't dislike anything.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

I used to do plays and some television commercials when I was younger. I guess my mom's being an actress got me interested in that, but music definitely took its place.

I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and loved being in front of people.