Quotes About Reputation

I know that my peers around the NBA respect me and I have respect around the NBA.

You're never as good as people say you are and you're never as bad as people say you are. You're always in the middle at some stage.

It's not in our hands to control what people say about us.

People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth.

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it.

People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour.

I'm trying to take all the media attention with a grain of salt. It is nice, but you are never as great as people say you are. And you're never as bad as others say you are.

Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?'

Be careful with how you make the world perceive you, because they'll perceive you like that for the rest of your life.

If people perceive you as a good actor then they'll wish for you to be a good actor and they'll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you're going to clubs every night people don't root for you anymore.

We do the press because we know logically it influences how we are perceived, but we don't pay attention to it after the fact.

I don't know how I'm really perceived in the world.

Really, I have no idea how I'm perceived in the industry.

The box office performance of a film is instrumental in an actor being perceived as saleable.

I've always had faith in my ring ability, but sometimes it's how you are perceived, and how good you are doesn't matter.

The bad press started to play a big part in how people perceived me, and I started playing on that too, which was a big mistake.

There were some relationships that weren't quite in line with the way we want to do things and the way that we want to be perceived by a lot of people.

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.

Artistes never make their image. Image is made by the fans and the artiste's job is to fight that perception.

There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.

The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.

I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.