Establishing a Reputation Quotes

I was kind of smart enough when I was young, 14 or 15 years old, to realize that if you're ever going to do anything and step out of the shadow of your own dad - not only in hockey, but in life itself - you're going to have to learn you're Brett and not 'Bobby's son.'

And I get so nervous now when it's not my show, like I'm not the headliner, because I know that those fans are there for another artist. Many people might not know an upcoming artist, but I've grown to like those shows because if I can control a crowd that doesn't know me, I'm doing my job as an entertainer. I have to rise to the occasion.

There's nothing 'flash in the pan' about my career. It's been built fan by fan, city by city.

I was clear about the fact that my first film should be 'big,' since it's the start of your whole career graph.

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.

It's like everyone wants to categorize you as this and that until you've made your own mark.

I would like to establish myself. I don't want to just have a moment.

Fallon tells me about first starting 'Late Night': how he knew audiences were dubious.

When I started out, I really struggled as a comic because no one knew who I was, and sometimes I was telling stories, so it would take a while for people to get on board for things.

At some point, a young player has to grasp the opportunity and make himself undroppable.

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.

Now I know that when you do come to a new club, you have to fight for your spot if you want to be in the line-up week in, week out.

I believe the first role you play helps you make a mark.

As a writer, you aren't anybody until you become somebody.

I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.