Top 1200 Character And Reputation Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

If I have a reputation for anything, it's for keeping a low profile.

Manchester has a certain reputation of being cool.

A lot of my reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance.

You only have one thing in business, and that is your reputation

O reputation! dearer far than life.

Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.

I'm not gonna ruin my reputation with the blacks no more.

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

It's important for me to live up to my reputation.

Only think of my being alive with a reputation!

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

I don't think I'll ever get away from my reputation.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.

A reputation is really hard to live down.

The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.

Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one.

I'm a great believer in the character of the 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.

I would be lying if I said Starz doesn't have a reputation.

Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.

The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.

You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.

What makes us love a character is a character that tries.

Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

I think I built my reputation by not worrying about it.

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

Be it TV, films, or stage, I love substantial roles. The length of the character doesn't matter, but if the character is well thought, then I have to grab it.

My reputation is as a fiscal hawk. At least, I hope that it is.

And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.

I have the reputation for being the opposite of a money-grubber.

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.

Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth.

I will retire with the reputation of Idi Amin.

According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.

If I'm a character, it's a biographical movie. My character is as close to me as possible. As close to being myself as possible. So my character, J. Cole, is very close to Jermaine Cole.

I never had that reputation of being not accessible.

Rather than just making a movie about video games, I wanted to start with the character and what the character was going through.

For someone who gets into the character and shoots for long hours, it is pretty difficult to cut off from the character and return to their normal life.

Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book - you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.

The zombie was just an intriguing character; it is a sympathetic character.

To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character.

The cat is a character of being, the dog, a character of doing.

Dont spoil reputation with too speaking.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

In the current era, more than prodigies in mathematics, science, athletics, or art, I believe we need prodigies of good character and integrity. People who have polished their character and integrity until they shine are the ones who can be the real heroes the world needs to solve its problems. I think that, when people have the correct understanding of the meaning of human character, there will be a solution.

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

One nourishes one's created characters with one's own substance: it's rather like the process of gestation. To give the character life, or to give him back life, it is of course necessary to fortify him by contributing something of one's own humanity, but it doesn't follow from that that the character is I, the writer, or that I am the character. The two entities remain distinct.

That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.

Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation.

A good reputation is better than fame.

The way I write my shows, every character is its own organic thing. No character has a life at all until I see it played by somebody.

Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'

People who have a reputation for being evil are usually good.

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.

Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?

I come from a country where there's a reputation for bad press.