Quotes About Reputation

People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right.

Will I ever forgive the British media for what they've done to me? No.

The public will forgive you almost anything if you're honest about it.

There's more anticipation, there's more forgiveness once you prove yourself to the fans.

People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.

I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile.

'A Face in the Crowd' is Elia Kazan's forgotten movie.

When you say a 'former child star,' you may as well say 'failed child star.'

I don't take reviews seriously. I don't even read them. Who is this person blasting forth his opinion? What's his worth, and how different is he from any man on the street?

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

I mean, we have all fought in a club. I'm kind of known for that.

I don't think I had one personal foul in my career. Now, that being said, no one can ever say I never brought it.

I was always known as the 'Desert Fox.'

Being a major-league baseball player is tough, so whenever you say 'face of the franchise,' I'm not trying to be that.

The way I see it, before I can sell an audience Frank Sr, I have to sell them Frank Jr first.

Celebrity is quite a fraught word. It is not something I aspire to, but I can certainly see why it could be.

People have started recognising me. I can't move around as freely as I used to.

After 'Breaking Bad,' people are very frightened of who I am. They back away from me on the street.

If you think meet-and-greets are fundamentally stupid, then you're never not gonna think that.

Now a man listening to gossip about another man whom he knows very well will go pretty far in the way of believing what a beautiful woman will tell him about that other man. Beauty and truth have a way of appearing to be akin; and it is true that no man knows what another man is doing when he is out of sight.

I guess it is vanity that makes most of us keep straight, if we do keep straight, in this world.

How was it possible that the most honourable man she knew should be so overwhelmed by foul and baseless rumours? It made you suspect that honour had, in itself, a quality of the evil eye . . .

Dana was lead singer for The Droids, Sweet Valley High's answer to the Rolling Stones. They had a reputation for being pretty wild, but most of it was just conjecture. Not many outsiders knew what went on in the smoky confines of Max Dellon's basement, where they held their practice sessions.

Each time a thought came knocking on the door of her mind, she viewed it cautiously. Was it true? Was it honorable? Was it pure or lovely? Was it of good repute?