An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.
I do have this reputation for being a serious person.
The Road was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.
I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don't mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.
Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.
As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.
My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition.
Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end.
I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say.
Why is it surprising that scientists might have long hair and wear cowboy boots? In fields like neuroscience, where the events you are recording are so minute, I suspect scientists cultivate a boring, reliable image. A scientist with a reputation for flamboyance might be suspect.
I did not have a reputation to defend.
President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
A reputation is really hard to live down.
Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.
I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.
It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.
I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio stations with horrendous reputations and nothing to lose.
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