Quotes About Reputation

I think my reputation speaks for itself. But everybody is entitled to their own opinion, and I'm going to continue to play football - play physical football.

It's interesting in American culture. We like to build people up and then push them off the pedestal, and then we want to see them come back. Like Britney Spears, and a lot of people, it's what we do, and it's not like that in other parts of the world.

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

Let's just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read into that what they like.

For dramas, I've become more careful because now there are specific works that you think of when you hear the name Song Hye-kyo.

I had a reputation of being somewhat moderate, partly, I think, because I wasn't a 'bomb thrower' like some of my conservative colleagues, and partly because I got along with people all across the political spectrum.

I think I've earned a reputation of being fair and that I'll hear all sides from the entire political spectrum.

In my first 15 or 20 years of authorship, I was almost never asked to give a speech or an interview. The written work was supposed to speak for itself, and to sell itself, sometimes even without the author's photograph on the back flap.

Don't believe your own press, and don't give speeches.

George W. Bush has shown himself to be a decent guy, not exploiting his former office to make top dollars giving speeches.

I don't care what you say about me. Just spell the name right.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

Jesse Jackson is a master of the old expression that it doesn't matter what someone says about you as long as they spell your name right.

My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone.

I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why I'm not going to do it. If young Posh Spice can write her autobiography, then I don't want to write one!

I didn't want the words 'Spider-Man' attached to my name in any shape or form. Especially a singing one.

Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.

I think the good part about me as a personality is in spite of being in the industry for more than 20 years, I didn't really face any controversy in my life.

I don't want to spoil the good name 'Mayaanadhi' has brought me. I am careful about selecting my next project and it's actually quite scary.

I can proudly say that I didn't spoil my father's name.

I was spoiled and I was arrogant. I was very demanding, had an overblown image of who I was and got a reputation for being difficult. And rightfully so.

I am not insecure or conscious that my image might get hampered. I don't think one should think the image will get spoilt due to Bigg Boss.'

Some ex-football players, or ex-teammates, they spoke to the media, and it looks like I am a bad boy or something, but I've never been a bad boy or had some problems at a club!

If one player can say that I, Emmanuel Adebayor, spoke badly to anyone in the changing rooms, then I'd honestly like to know who it is. It has never happened in my life.