Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

Once you become famous, you can't become unfamous. You can become a failure.

I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.

I could have just received royalty checks every month by lending my name to a collection, but I didn't want to do that. My name is a reflection of me.

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

I really want to be known for my work. That sounds like such a... cliche, and I've thought about how else I can say it to make it sound less hackneyed. But that's what it comes down to... I know people are interested in these things.

Public perception is obviously important to an actor's career.

What's important is the work that you're doing, not the country that you're in. I would much rather be in a play at the Royal Court than in Los Angeles making 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.'

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

If no one wants to jump into a Kim Weston and drive it down the street. That's fine with me I don't care. I know my work is good and I know it's serious work.

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!.

For me, the only value a celebrity has, or any artist or actor or anything, is the things that they make, you know?

Let me tell you what the truth is... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad press. There is not. That's a fundamental truth. The more bad things said about you, the more power they give to you.

Always let your work talk for yourself. No matter how much you give interviews or how much you are written about, it is always the performance which counts.

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

If your work is really successful, it should attract the audience to you beyond just the premier.

If you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.

The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.

In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.

If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of Popularity is shame; if thou be once up, beware; from fame to infamy is a beaten road.

Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.

There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation!

Your take on things is what is either going to make you somebody people talk about or no.

In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to.