Quotes About Reputation

I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors.

I can't wait to meet Steven Spielberg or Al Pacino again so I can say, 'I have to tell you how you know me. You know me because I am the worst actor in the world.'

The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.

My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far, I think it's respect and quality and company, not celebrity or box office or stardom. It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.

If you stick around long enough and you do enough of the right things, you get seen in a largely positive light.

You can't just stick someone's name on a headphone that doesn't know anything about sound.

I joke about it being a millstone, but it never hurts to have a name that sticks out.

We celebrities have stiff upper-lips.

I'm trying to work on my modelling career and remove myself from the whole FHM stigma. I want to be seen as a classic model.

We bought the UFC when not only was it a bankrupt company that was going under, it had a horrible stigma attached to it. This thing was so bad it was not allowed on pay-per-view.

There is a huge stigma around people who are online making money online.

I've had to prove myself beyond that street-fighter image with some people in the UFC. It has a stigma to it.

Even with me going to prison, it could have put a bad stigma on my name. But you keep going. When people see you in a low situation, when people see you fight, they respect you for it.

My work will speak for me. In fact, I never had a PR and I still don't.

I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.

If Martin Scorsese thinks you stink, you stink.

When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

When you are a face for a long time and you turn heel, your stock value immediately goes up, especially if you're able to pull it off in the ring and on the mic. Then you ride that horse as long as you can. When it starts to falter, and when attendance drops, then you can turn back babyface. And your stock value goes up again.

Work at a place like Google for awhile: if you do an interview and you say all the right things, no one really cares. But the day you say the wrong sentence, it's attributed to 'Senior Google Executive,' and the stock moves, and everybody hates you.

Nobody wants to be a laughing stock.

You understand in this league that if you don't win, everybody's stock tumbles.

Italian football is a laughing stock.

Someday you give a hit movie and things are good, but when your next movie fails, your stocks fall.