Top 1200 Character And Reputation Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation.

Hope I lived up to my reputation for being slick.

I feel character description from a book can mislead you and actually make you fall off course when you're representing a character using a script.

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf.

I have a strong and strange character, and I've rarely met directors who knew what to do with this character. One of the few who did was my father, and in the theatre, Arthur Nauzyciel.

It is easier to add to a great reputation than to get it.

You're in everyone's homes every week as this character, and they feel like they know you, and then they start to really define you as this character that you portray.

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.

Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.

I'm totally comfortable today with the success that Omar and 'The Wire' have brought me - living with that character, being recognized and remembered for that character.

If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.

Once, during an interview in front of my wife, I was asked, "Are you one of those actors who brings your character home? Do you stay in character?" I said, "No, not really. I don't do that," and she started laughing. I asked her why. She said, "Well, you might think you don't bring characters home, but you do." So, while I don't feel like a character is lingering, it probably is.

Where do you go to buy back your reputation when you lose it?

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.

Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction.

My reputation has increased, not just in Korea but across the continent.

You need not rest your reputation on the dinners you give.

It's a challenge to work a character's arc into a format in which you only have a very limited amount of time to grow and develop a character.

First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.

I'm a great believer in the character of a club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have.

When it's a bigger character, and there's a lot going on for her, and there are all these different elements that go into the character, I just love being able to dive into it.

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.

It's nice to be able to explore both sides of my personality. I definitely relate more to Debbie, my character on The Grinder. But it's really nice because I get to play a character who's down on her luck and kinda slipping off the edge in It's Always Sunny, while at the same time getting to play this character who's a mom and holding it together on The Grinder.

I just loved Jake The Snake because of that character and how he cut a promo. That dark nature of his character was amazing.

No one wants to be the creator with the reputation for bad mouthing sponsors!

The moral absolutes rest upon God's character. The moral commands He has given to men are an expression of His character. Men as created in His image are to live by choice on the basis of what God is. The standards of morality are determined by what conforms to His character, while those things which do not conform are immoral.

My reputation was that I had bad BO, and I was poor, and I was ugly.

Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!

You earn your reputation by the things you do every day.

I have enjoyed an impeccable reputation and have always maintained professionalism.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

Being the Rated-R Superstar, I have to live up to the reputation.

Everybody in the military has a reputation, and usually it doesn't come out to the public.

Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided.

Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.

You relate to a character and you find that character within yourself. It's all parts of me. I don't leave characters behind. I just let them go.

I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

The Cantor reputation is one we get from clients and those we hire.

I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.

You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

I try to construct some kind of backstory for my character so that I have an idea of the life of that character - not just from the moment when the scene starts, but from before.

John Higgins is an absolute legend. He has such a good reputation.

Sting's legacy was built on Ric Flair's reputation.

Woman novelists seem to have a reputation for being dowdy.