Quotes About Reputation

With wiseguys, you don't know a guy by his name, only by his nickname. You never asked a guy for his last name.

The first glimpse I had of what Mario Batali's friends had described to me as the 'myth of Mario' was on a cold Saturday night in January 2002, when I invited him to a birthday dinner.

My mother was a biographer's dream and a nightmare. She was a dream because she was a classic to write about and everybody loves her. She was a nightmare because there are no scandals, quasi-cruelties, no really juicy stuff.

I think even if you do five films, some people would be like 'yeah, no big deal.'

No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.

There is no doubt in my mind Bill Cosby was a bad boy.

'The New York Times' is a great newspaper: it is also No Fun.

An actor had made a comment and said, 'You are so unapproachable.' He called me boring and said, 'You're no fun.' He also said, 'I don't know if I ever want to work with you again.' And I never worked with him after that film.

Anybody who believes Yelp is an idiot. Most people on Yelp have no idea what they're talking about.

I had no idea it was going to be like this. People come up to me all the time, but it's never, 'Oh, you're Sheryl Lee.' It's, 'Oh my gosh, you're Laura Palmer.'

We have no intention of being the fashion kings they're trying to make us out to be.

Everything he did, as long as you stayed in the village, whether shouting obscenities at passing children or sleeping in the cemetery, all would be remembered when they looked at you, they would say to themselves or to whomever they were with, It's his father, you know, the crazy one, the drunk, and they couldn't help but wonder what part of his madness had passed on to you, which part you had escaped.

One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' somewhere in the sentence.

How come every squitty little shitty snotty bastard knows my name?

Nada é tão débil e instável quanto a fama da potência não assente na própria força

And it has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain or unstable as fame or power not founded on its own strength.

Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, an axe murderer. I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation, Flynn promised.

Being dead didn't make Jack Mercy any less of a son of a bitch

Don't hate me." "Does anybody?" "Kevin's old high school girlfriend." "Because she's a slut." Jenny beamed. "I didn't realize you knew Candy.

Fame all depends on the ground you're standing on...

I bet you're a really nice guy. He didn't sigh, but he wanted to. I've been accused of it.

Once you lose someone's respect it is the hardest thing to win back

Somewhere, at some point, somehow, somebody decided that death equals credibility.

Once people decide they want you to do something, they don't really care what your qualifications are. However you describe yourself becomes proof that you're the ideal candidate. This is true in journalism, and in life.