#reputation

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person. ↗

— Crispin Glover

#eccentric #fact #i #me #mix

I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#come #gets #i #i think #lots

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#character #i #me #reputation #take

It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks. ↗

— James Payn

#actions #adopt #asterisks #better #blanks

I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been. ↗

— Randy Quaid

#any #anything #been #further #i

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#gossip #reputation #faith

Whether true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and particularly on their destinies, as what they do. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#men

You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied. 'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently. 'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal! ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#fame #immortality #reputation #confidence

I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#began #endowment #few #had #i

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#always #careful #casting #cautious #effect