Quotes About Reputation

I know there is trouble in boxing. People say it is no longer good. But I cannot take responsibility. I am not a missionary for boxing.

Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.

This is Hollywood. People don't admit mistakes.

I couldn't, and I wouldn't have the long-term friendships and continued loyalty from so many reputable people if I'd mistreated my actors of any age, especially minors.

I hope my fans can learn who the real Zhao Wei is and get rid of all the misunderstandings there were before.

Among the actors, I think my name has been misused the maximum number of times in the industry.

Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.

Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.

Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.

You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.

That's what media do. They make you out to be a monster.

If you lose, you are out; if you win, you are the flavour of the month.

That's not what I want to be known as - a guy who doesn't want to play and is moody.

I'm not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame.

I would like more people to think good things about me, but if they never do, they never do.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

Being labeled as someone who would cheat hurts more than anything else I've ever been through in my career.

Jamie Dimon is doing a great job; J.P. Morgan is a great institution.

I don't want to be a total moron and be just known as the jazz-handed judge.

Image is the most important thing about someone's career and longevity.

The most important thing to me is facing people head on and focusing on not disappointing the public.

Conspicuous abstention from labour therefore becomes the conventional mark of superior pecuniary achievement and the conventional index of reputability; and conversely, since application to productive labour is a mark of poverty and subjection, it becomes inconsistent with a reputable standing in the community.

We all look with distaste on people who arrogantly pretend to a reputation to which they are not entitled; but equally to be condemned are those who, through lack of moral fibre, fail to live up to the reputation which is theirs already.