David Sanborn Quotes

I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.

You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.

In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.

I don't want to build a reputation for just being able to take long throws.

You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.

In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen.

You're only as good as your last pass.

Remember that your reputation is everything. You build your personal brand through everything you do, whether big actions or small decisions, and that brand will stay with you throughout your career.

You are only as good as your last book, and so there has to be a book.

I don't want to be known as someone who is deliberately trying to do things that are not commercial! That is not a good reputation to have when you're trying to be a working actor.

A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.

You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.

I always had a trunk full of good reviews. I'd get magnificent reviews, and I'd be standing out on the unemployment line!

I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

Image is the most important thing about someone's career and longevity.

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

Every time you do a movie, it's important for your career, your reputation.

My experience in Bollywood has been this: You work hard, you deliver, and nobody finds fault with you.

It's always difficult to say if anyone is in the best form of their career.

You're only as good as your last fight. It's just the way things are. It's the way that the sport is built.

I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to.

People have different opinions of your career and how you've played and all that, and they're entitled to their opinions.

Some good fighters, they never won the belt, so it doesn't always show the whole picture. But it's an accomplishment.

I've always been interested in image and reputation management. Because really, when you think about it, it is an old phrase, but all we have is our word and our good name.

It's gratifying to work for somebody who doesn't measure accomplishment by the temporary state of public-opinion polls.