George R. R. Martin Quotes

It’s not what you are that counts; it’s what people think you are.

You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.

People are really concerned with what other people are saying about them.

You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

He whose honor is rooted in popular approval must, day by day, anxiously strive, act, and scheme in order to retain his reputation.

People ended up not thinking much of me. They saw me as a bit of a troublemaker. It's important to change people's impressions.

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

I really can't help what someone thinks of me because they are reading a paper and choosing to believe it.

People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

Be careful with how you make the world perceive you, because they'll perceive you like that for the rest of your life.

Right before I left New York, I had my manager tell me, 'You need to get a girl on your arm, or people will start talking.'

Well, I don't know what image people have of me.

Everyone thinks I'm a nice guy, which is not a bad way to be perceived.

I don't want to be thought of as wholesome.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.

Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.