Reputation quotes

“- James T. Kirk: How much refit time before we can take her out again?
- Scotty: Eight weeks, sir. But ye don't have eight weeks, so I'll do it for ye in two.
- James T. Kirk: Mr. Scott. Have you always multiplied your repair estimates by a factor of four?
- Scotty: Certainly, sir. How else can I keep my reputation as a miracle worker?”
William Shatner - James T. Kirk
James Doohan - Scotty

“They named everything after me: cigars, racehorses, perfumes, battleships!”
Marie Dressler - Carlotta Vance

“There goes the famous good time that was had by all.”

Bette Davis

“I hate to say it, but, the accountants seem to be running MI6 these days. Oh, not that I have anything against accountants. Many of them are lovely people. So, I decided that it was cheaper to supply his deputy with evidence that we were bribing Le Chiffre. Its amazing what you can do with photoshop, these days, isn't it.”
Giancarlo Giannini - Rene Mathis

“I'm surprised you haven't heard of me, I got a bad reputation, like sometimes I just go nuts like now ha ha!”
Mel Gibson - Martin Riggs

“- Han: The Red Evo's yours
- Shawn Boswell: What do you mean?
- Han: You're representing me now. What you think, I'm gonna let you roll in a Hyundai?”
Sung Kang - Han

“There I was, everybody making a hero of me. I accepted it because I didn't have guts enough to refuse it. It went on, and on - the honors piled up. And every one I got made it more impossible to tell the truth.”

Berton Churchill - Mr. Winston

“I have a name and a reputation! Somewhat tattered, perhaps. But still good for dinner invitations and summer seminars.”
Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Bruhl

“If a man builds a thousand bridges and sucks one dick, they don't call him a bridge-builder, they call him a cocksucker.”
Woody Harrelson - Vince Boudreau

“- Mrs. Topper: I think its ridiculous for a man of your age to pursue young girls. What will the neighbors think?
- Cosmo Topper: I didn't pursue them, Clara. They forced themselves on me.
- Mrs. Topper: Don't be absurd! Imagine girls, pretty girls, forcing themselves on a paunchy, middle-aged man.”
Billie Burke - Mrs. Topper
Roland Young - Cosmo Topper

“- Ethan Hunt: How does it feel to be a solid citizen again?
- Luther: Man, I don't know. I'm gonna miss bein' disreputable.
- Ethan Hunt: Well, Luther, if it makes you feel any better, I'll always think of you that way.”
Tom Cruise - Ethan Hunt
Ving Rhames - Luther

“Back in the day he was known as Mean Dean Proffitt and me I was Bad Billy Pratt.”
Mike Hagerty - Billy Pratt

“- Cathleen Calvert: That's Rhett Butler. He's from Charleston. He has the most terrible reputation.
- Scarlett - Their Daughter: He looks as if... as if he knows what I look like without my shimmy.”
Marcella Martin - Cathleen Calvert
Vivien Leigh - Scarlett - Their Daughter

“Make me a scapegoat if you will, call me a traitor, if you will; But please, let's save the country. The alternative to this treaty is a war which no one in this room can even contemplate. If the price of peace, if the price of freedom is the blackening of my name, I would gladly pay it.”
Liam Neeson - Michael Collins

“- Gerry Fleck: She had dozens of boyfriends.
- Cookie Fleck: Hundreds.
- Gerry Fleck: Hundreds?
- Cookie Fleck: Yeah, hundreds.
- Gerry Fleck: Well, I did not know that! Not that... not that I didn't have quite the reputation myself. I was known by, you know, some, to be quite the Casanova.”
Eugene Levy - Gerry Fleck
Catherine O'Hara - Cookie Fleck

“- Danforth: Moto, I'm beginning to believe all the stories I've heard about you.
- Mr. Moto: Please do not.”
John Carradine - Danfoth
Peter Lorre - Mr. Moto

“You're wasting your time. He doesn't want any lawyers. He's sunk so low he doesn't want help from anybody. You can take a bow for that. As swell a guy as ever hit this town, and you crucified him for a couple of stinking headlines.”

Lionel Stander - Cornelius Cobb

“- Ed Pratt: Yuelin put up your guarantee.
- Jack Moore: I thought the embassy put it up.
- Ed Pratt: No.
- Ambassador Reed: In China, bail has nothing to do with money. It's reputation. To have you released today so that she could prepare a defense, Shen Yuelin put up her career, her future.”

Robert Stanton - Ed Pratt
Richard Tiffany Gere - Jack Moore
Richard Venture - Ambassador Reed

“- Henry Gatewood: So you're the notorious Ringo Kid.
- The Ringo Kid: My friends just call me Ringo - nickname I had as a kid. Right name's Henry.”
Berton Churchill - Henry Gatewood
John Wayne - The Ringo Kid

“- Leroy Green: Those who are bound by desire see only that which can be held in their hands.
- Sho'nuff: See, now it is mumbo jumbo like that, and skinny little lizards like you thinkin' they're the last dragon that gives kung-fu a bad name.”
Taimak - Leroy Green
Julius Carry - Sho'nuff

My name is Lieutenant Harris! In case you missed it. This is Sergeant Callahan! In case you missed it. We are the meanest instructors here. We've got you because you are the worst people here. You are "D" Squad; "D" for "dirtbags". When I say: "Hey, dirtbags!" that means you. You people are going to hate my guts for the rest of your lives. I am... (continue)(continue reading)
G.W. Bailey - Captain Harris

“- Larry Wilson: Son of a bitch. I mean, it's not bad enough that he's trying to kill me. Now he's trying to turn me into a drag queen. Why couldn't he have said you were going to have the operation?
- Richard Parker: It doesn't matter, Larry, it doesn't matter.
- Larry Wilson: Oh, yes it does matter, Richard, it does matter. I have a reputation...” (continue)(continue reading)

Andrew McCarthy - Larry Wilson
Jonathan Silverman - Richard Parker

“You wouldn't have these problems if you were a fallen woman.”

Ruth Chatterton - Alison Drake

“We're always quickest to doubt people who have a reputation for being honest.”
William H. Macy - Milton Arbogast

“- Narvel Blue: Look here, Ghost. You ain't got nothing to gain by this. I beat you, word gets out the Grey Ghost got whupped by a nigger. You beat me, they'll just say the Ghost beat some nigger just like he beats everybody else.
- Gavin Grey: I ain't doin' it for what people say, Blue. Let's race.”
Carl Lumbly - Narvel Blue
Dennis Quaid - Gavin Grey