Reputation Change Quotes

To restart a brand, you have to make people forget what it was.

I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.

I went from one day being toasted to being roasted.

I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

I am delighted to see Italians horrifying the world for a change instead of charming it with their guitar-playing skills.

People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.

Baltimore has been a punchline/punching bag for years - I've landed a few blows, to be fair - but those old jokes are out of touch.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

I had an initial wave of popularity that, in time, crashed, and I slowly became less popular and less successful, and I had to figure out who I was without those things.

There's nothing better than getting announced you're doing a job, people slating you, then you do a job and having people go 'he's actually all right.'

You just can't believe how quickly things happen in football and the way life turns. I went from being the bad guy, the worst player who gets all the criticism, to being the player who makes the difference and scores the important goals.

Early in my career, when I was still learning about politics, when I was wet behind the ears and naive... Up until the time I started radio show, nobody that knew me ever thought I was a hatemonger or a racist or homophobic or sexist or bigoted or any of that. Nobody. There wasn't anybody. Six months after being on the radio with this program, I'd become all of that. And I remember.

The Trump name is now going to mean something else.

Once established, reputations do not easily change.

I think people are starting to think of me less as an actor and more as a writer.

I turned from a fan favourite to a player they hated in no time.

When I left drama school, saying you were going to the RSC made you a laughing stock.

It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.

The perception about me has changed to a certain extent after the success of 'Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety.'

Before 'Animal Kingdom,' I wasn't particularly thought of in villainous roles.

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

Before, it was always, 'Oh, no, here comes Clancy, that insurance agent.' Now it's, 'Oh, here comes Tom Clancy, bestselling author.' But I'm still the same basic middle-class slob.