I've sort of made a reputation by high-stepping my way out of genre. As soon as somebody says, 'He does this,' I'm not standing there anymore.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio stations with horrendous reputations and nothing to lose.
I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.
I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.
I have a bad reputation because I play evil from the outside but if you get closer I hide heaven inside me❤ ❤
Sokrates' wife, Xanthippe, had in antiquity a reputation as a shrew - but being married to such a man would have tried anyone's patience, and the evidence is not conclusive.
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
[after watching a damning NBC special report] Jim Garrison: At least my reputation is still fine with people watching "Laugh In".
Milton Arbogast: We're always quickest to doubt people who have a reputation for being honest.
If Anglo feels it hasn't done enough damage to me already by taking my money, my company, my reputation, if they want to finish it off by putting me in prison, then so be it - I'll accept that.
It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.
Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of national and other biases in the selection of the laureates.
In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.
Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.
I'm hoping that maybe I'll start getting a reputation for being a guy who can be pretty versatile. That's the challenge and the fun of being an actor. I love getting to play and do different things.
Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.
A person’s reputation is like a glass panel that remains protected till it remains fitted in the strong and durable frame of the good character.
Actually what I'd like is to have a reputation as someone who's been wild and gone straight, but without having to go through the trouble of being bad.
And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
