Quotes About Reputation

Initially after 'Sherlock,' I got offered a lot of swinger movies. There is that thing of keeping your mystique and not taking your clothes off in every job.

If you do a bad role in a film, you may not get television offers in future.

Ever since 'Bigg Boss' happened, a lot of entertainment and movie offers poured in.

If you make the All-Star team and you get the label next your name, for whatever reason, people will think, 'Oh, yeah, he's good now.' But if you don't have it, it's, 'Well, he's never made it, he's never done anything, so why would you think he's any better than this guy or the next guy.'

You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'

I'm lucky. As soon as I open my mouth, people see I know what I'm talking about, and when I leave the room, I think most say, 'She's OK.'

It's okay to be misunderstood - as long as you're not misunderstood by your consumers.

As I get older and older, people like my work more and more.

I think especially older people, and I count myself one, in the business - people get to know who you really are. So there comes a time when you can't just go in and audition without everybody knowing exactly how you've brought up your kids, what you said at the meeting, what kind of food you cook.

Once you lose your credibility, you can never restore it.

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

One minute you can be the blue-eyed boy and the next match you can be slated.

One of the things that was probably to Dad's discredit was that he was never a fund-raiser. But he didn't live in an era of TV ads.

The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.

I want people to see that I'm not a one-hit wonder.

I'm glad 'Honest' came out right after 'Karate Chop,' because I don't want to be seen as a one-hit wonder.

There's loads of eyes and expectations. People are almost waiting for you to make a mistake so they can say, 'Oh, she's a one-hit wonder!'

It's so easy to look foolish online.

Online, you can't be scooped. If you are scooped, it's no one's fault but your own.

I think that there was a lot of fantasy projected onto me, and that resulted in a reappropriation and re-characterization of who I am.

I mean, a lot of the times I think I'm seen as a bad girl, and I think that's because I'm so open.

All business must have a social license to operate.

In Australia, I think, there's so much baggage with it. You just mention 'Snowtown,' and everyone's got an opinion about it.

Fans always have an opinion of their own. We only try to live up to their expectations.