Quotes About Reputation

A couple of people thought I looked familiar, but it was like, No.

I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: 'It's the man from TV!'

When you don't act right to your family and friends, that's bad, but they also have the opportunity to experience the 'good' side as well. Disappointing the fans is an entirely different thing because the fans love your music and save up money to see you in concert.

The players get no respect around here. They give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and players from other teams love to see that. That's why nobody wants to play here.

Definitely, I got a reputation growing up playing on the guys' hockey teams. The guys knew how tough I was because I played with them. I got quite a good reputation for beating up boys going up through school.

There are certain teams in the NFL that have a certain aura about them, and there's a certain respect level about them.

When you play on bad defensive teams, you get labeled as a bad defender.

When you have your star players that decide to use their platform, one, their platforms are bigger than everyone else's, and two, they're a force to be reckoned with because teams don't want to lose that talent. They're a force to be heard.

Reading nice stuff about you is lovely, but I know it's going to be soul-destroying when you do something that everyone is tearing apart.

We've always been fans of groups like Little Feat, Steely Dan, the Eagles, or Dire Straits that have that quality. Bands that sometimes are perceived as not the 'cool' band, because they're so good in a technical sense.

Being world No1 doesn't make you one-under on the first tee the next time you play, but it's something to be proud of for sure.

I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.

I feel like clout is something that builds up on your teeth.

Telephone operators recognize my voice before I give my name, and say, 'Sock it to Kilpatrick.'

In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.

I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote taker and processor of press releases - was, in the world of letters I grew up in, a lower-down job. To be a writer - once the ambition of every journalist - was to be the greater truth teller.

The first time I heard Johnny play at the Fillmore East, I wasn't really impressed. He had come on the scene with everybody telling me how great he was, and I didn't hear it.

If I'm not getting played on the radio and I'm not making any money, I have nothing to lose by telling the truth.

There's not a day that goes by that I don't get an email from someone who is angry with me and tells me they're not going to let their kid listen to Imagine Dragons anymore.

I don't want people turning on the telly and going, 'Dear God, not him again.'

Extras changed the public's perception of me hugely - they saw there was more to me than just this bloke off the telly.

When youre on telly, youre defined by what you do on telly.

You know, for years I used to read about myself. They'd say, 'He has a temper' or 'He's a bully' or something like that, and it always bothered me.

An awful lot has been written about my temper.