Best 569 quotes in «reputation quotes» category

I got a reputation for being sort of nuts and difficult, because I was at that point, so I wasn't much in demand. And also, on the basic level, I'd made a lot of movies that didn't make money. And if you make movies that don't make money - I mean, it is a business, after all - you are not in demand.

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.

I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I'm doing so that if the improvisational strand doesn't work I can go back to what I know's already there.

I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

I have not a clue why they sent it to me. As far as I know I have not got a reputation as a receiver of stolen goods.

I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.

I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

I have the reputation for being the opposite of a money-grubber.

I haven't got a good reputation with pain.

I have this reputation of not wanting to talk to the media, which isn't true. What I don't like-what a lot of us don't understand-is how we can say one thing and it turns up in print as something else.

I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.

I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people.

I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.

I'm allergic to money, because the choices that I make usually concern the people and the project itself, rather than the financial gain that is projected. I have the reputation for being the opposite of a money-grubber.

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.

I'm not running like Colonel [Bernie] Sanders. All reputations matter.

I'm protective of the reputation of Christ and the church.

I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.

In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to.

I'm supposed to be this complete slapper, that's my reputation.

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.

In any branding strategy, you need to figure out what is the image you want to project. Then behave accordingly. And above all, cultivate the media and those who will help you burnish your reputation.

In Hollywood, people get reputations, just rumors that are passed down.

In fashion, we have a reputation for being such a façade, fake people, but none of the fashion people who I know are fake.

In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players.

In the early days of the crash it was widely believed that Jesse L. Livermore, a Bostonian with a large and unquestionably exaggerated reputation for bear operations, leading a syndicate that was driving the market down.

I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

I think I sort of have a love/hate relationship with a reputation I have for being the designer who works with grids.

I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken.

I think the Democrats did a terrible disservice, the Hillary Clinton campaign did, to Tim Kaine. Tim Kaine had the earned reputation of being one of the most respected and well-liked, and not cheap partisan members of the United States Senate. And they turned him into an attack dog.

I think there is a huge difference between writers who have very big sales, and writers who have small sales. Even writers with very high reputations, even Nobel prize winners, often sell in very low figures.

It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.

It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.

It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

It seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings.

I took anything that came across my doorstep. I started getting a reputation.

It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincolns single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.

It's funny because I think it also goes very well with the show. It has this reputation as being this love city where everyone goes to get married, but when you get there, it's very corny and tacky.

It's shocking how bright your star is.

It's good to have a brand that is consistent that people know about and trust. But it's also good to mix it up and adapt it, to polish it a bit and give it a new aspect. To not violate the reputation you've established but give it a new edge and veneer to show other aspects that people hadn't suspected.