I did not have a reputation to defend.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring.

I did not have a reputation to defend.

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

I still had some honor... I still have some now.

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.

I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line.

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down.

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.

As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

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.

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

That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

Their families helped them realize that there was more out there for them. These students came to Delaware State because of its inexpensive tuition, closeness to home, and solid reputation.

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

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

That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.

I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.

Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.