I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.
I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.
I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.
I have a reputation in my professional work, negotiating contracts, where I've gone into deals where other people haven't closed the deal, and I've been able to get it done.
The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.
With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn’t understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.
I will design myself a reputation, in which prospects can place their trust, and customers return to and recommend.
In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.
The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price.
[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.
A brick could be used as a boat, and due to the brick’s reputation of indestructibility, we could call the boat “The Titanic.” Surely a brick with that name would never sink.
In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares with few other artists.
In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.
Cleveland has a very bad reputation, but there's a lot of stuff that's left over from when there were very wealthy people - the Art Museum and a world class symphony that's still world class.
If you wish to draw profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and never with the design of gaining a reputation for learning.
The reputation of a great work ethic that took years to build can be forgotten with one act of misjudgment.
The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.
Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.
What's in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you.
