Quotes About Reputation

You're not actually being a good actor all the time. But people refer to me as a good actor because they read it someplace, not because they've made up their own mind. So I'm very lucky!

I hate walking around known as a team that loses all the time.

I can handle a bad story better than anybody as long as it's true and, you know, over a course of time, I'll make mistakes and you'll write badly and I'm OK with that. But I'm not OK when it is fake.

I became known for surprising audiences. Except now, if I surprise them every time, they expect that.

You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice things about you.

A lot of time people are like, "oh my God, you're stereotyped." Good, then you're known for something.

Why do I get the feeling that if you give me a hard time, I'll tell all of our year-mates your family nickname is Meathead?

Cost does not equal value... and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.

I think you can find yourself on one of these shows for a long period of time and think that all you'll ever be able to do is that character. Certainly people think of you that way.

When people see a negative thing about me on a magazine, they're gonna buy it. Every time some site writes something bad, all my followers go on there, and it brings them more traffic.

You can't go around saying you're the best, all the time, 'cause it puts a target on your back.

You know, people really know me from 'The Best Man.' I've done five other movies since then, but it always comes back to 'The Best Man.' It was time to do the sequel.

If you can make your name and your works very famous and at the same time can succeed in making yourself much unknown, you are definitely the most intelligent celebrity!

I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again.

[Phelps] firmly denies that he takes drugs, suggesting that the notorious photo of him smoking from a bong was a one-time lapse of judgment.

I don't care where you are, but the fans only remember your last time at bat.

Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we hear of Pakistan it's in that context.

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Mark Twain describes how his friend Ralph Keeler introduced him at the start of a lecture: 'I don't know anything about this man. At least I know only two things; one is, he hasn't been in the penitentiary, and the other is (after a pause, and almost sadly), I don't know why.

Un clásico es un libro que todos alaban y nadie lee

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition; there are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

There are two types of people. People who have accomplished things and people who have claimed to accomplish things. The first group is less crowded.

I will conclude this chapter with a remark that I am sincerely proud to be able to make—and glad, as well, that my comrades cordially endorse it, to wit: by far the handsomest women we have seen in France were born and reared in America. I feel now like a man who has redeemed a failing reputation and shed luster upon a dimmed escutcheon, by a single just deed done at the eleventh hour. Let the curtain fall, to slow music.