All fame is dangerous: Good, bringeth Envy; Bad, Shame.
People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.
I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
The most important thing is just to be recognised as a legend, like the people call me. To have that title attached to your name, you've got to be a bad man. It's an honour to have that role.
A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.
Let's face it: I've got a bit of a reputation.
OK, so I'm not famous for the right reasons.
Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.
Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.
I just don't want people to think I'm too sweet of a boy; and little miss angel boy, because I'm going to get caught doing somebody horrible.
It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us.
Evil news fly faster still than good.
When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.'
An alibi is a reason with a bad reputation.
You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the intent to make people believe me to be a very bad woman.
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
Cleveland gets crapped on a lot.
People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.
Football sometimes has a bad reputation. Some of that is deserved... and some of it isn't.
Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.
Fruitcakes have a bad rap.
Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.
As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.
Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.
