Quotes About Reputation

The notion people have about me is that I am always angry and irritated. Also, I report late to work and I am not serious about my job. But if all these things were true about me, people wouldn't be working with me.

Something even minor I do is going to be reported because of things that have happened in the past. You have to be aware of that.

Over the course of 20 years that I've been at NBC, I have never seen the amount of money I make reported correctly by the media.

You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer.

When I talk about celebrities, I don't dislike them - it's what they represent.

My construction business represents 10 or 20 times what I'll ever invest in football. But from the moment I bought the Chargers, I would become forever known as the owner of that NFL franchise.

I think it's about creating a brand for yourself and making sure that you're known, and that people know you for who you are. How do you do something that represents you and translates everything that you represent as a person and as a player? I think that's something that we all develop.

People only know me for what they've heard, but that only represents about 10 percent of what I've done.

The Republican Party just isn't held in high repute in the black community. Under Bill Brock we were reaching out to broaden the base of the party. We have to go back to that.

Republicans have said much worse things about me than any Democrat ever has.

Everywhere I go, people think I'm Helen Hunt.

I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.

But hey, controversy - well, it hasn't hurt me in 50 years.

I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.

I'm not the kind of person to Google myself, because you'll find whatever you're looking for. If you want to read something that says you're the greatest actor that ever lived, if you want to find something that is pretty hurtful, you'll find it.

I know for me, personally, when something is being said about me that isn't true, it's extremely hurtful and frustrating.

I had become mean and stupid and deliberately hurtful because that is what is expected of restaurant critics. Of critics in general.

I've always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn't. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

I don't want to believe my own hype.

Some of the best advice I was ever given was: 'Don't believe your own hype.'

The easiest way to not believe your own hype is to not know what people are saying about you.

I just don't believe the hype. I just don't take myself too seriously. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

A lot of the fans don't necessarily get to see what I can do, because they've seen me as the hype girl for Cass & Enzo.

There is a danger in believing your own hype.