Quotes About Cred

#1. People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I'm selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff ... Chill out! And just enjoy yourself.

Adam Lambert

#2. Music has always been a big part of Cheech & Chong's career, so it's just natural. You know, I was a musician before I met Cheech and had a record with Motown, and so I've got the cred.

Tommy Chong

#3. People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.

Aisha Tyler

#4. I happened to fall into a job that wound up being a seminal piece of television history, which was a show I did on HBO called 'The Wire.' That experience really set the bar for me and opened a lot of doors. It also gave me a lot of street cred in terms of my phone ringing and job offers.

Deirdre Lovejoy

#5. Geek cred points for trying to stump me, but sorry, you'll have to do better than that. Would you like to try anime for a hundred?" When she looked blank, he sighed. "What took it down, anime, or the Jeopardy reference?

Rachel Caine

#6. I am so proud of 'Top Chef' - I think it's got great cred.

Andy Cohen

#7. As far as my street cred goes, I'll always have that, because I always hang with the kids. I'll jump right off the stage and buy them a beer. I'll be a star on stage, but I'll always hang with the kids.

Kid Rock

#8. Street cred is hard won and Destiny requires you to pay it forward. God helps you through hard times so you can help someone else.

T.D. Jakes

#9. Chrissie Hynde is the blueprint for any teenage pop star wannabe looking to have some real cred.

Shawn Amos

#10. I was kind of embarrassed by some of the films I had done. I was like, "Oh, they're going to think I don't have street cred."

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#11. Boy, does that give you street cred for years after, if you tell people you were on 'The Larry Sanders Show!'

Janeane Garofalo

#12. Whose SUV is this?" I asked once we were out of Carnal.
"Mine." He answered.
I looked at him. "You drive a Harley."
"Not big on puttin' bad guys on the back of my bike when I hunt them down, Ace. Fucks with my street cred.

Kristen Ashley

#13. We drove in silence for a while.
"Can I have a gun?" I asked.
"No!"
"Just a little one? For my handbag? It'll give me some street cred with the client."
"No! No! No!"
His clenched fists pounded the steering wheel with each word.
- heller 1

J.D. Nixon

#14. One-way monologues through the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia don't have much street cred with China's Internet generation, to be honest.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#15. In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout, as a way to find fans who wouldn't have ordinarily come across their genre of music.

Alexandra Patsavas

#16. Do you somehow think that terrorizing a middle schooler is going to give you some street cred? It's just going to make you look like a witch," he said. "Or even more of a witch than most people already think you are.

Lily Harper Hart

#17. To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred.

Tina Brown

#18. The joy of the new, hip, happening, double-espresso Dublin is that you can blame any strange mood on coffee deprivation. This never worked in the era of tea, at least not at the same level of street cred.

Tana French

#19. Since 'A Dangerous Method,' I've had meetings with everyone from J.J. Abrams to the producers of 'Drive.' And they all have the same thing in common; they say: 'Wow you worked with Cronenberg.' He gave me instant film cred.

Sarah Gadon

#20. Across a sea of asphalt and cars, was where I caught my first glimpse of the woman who would do the impossible and awaken a long dead part of me.

K.I. Lynn

#21. The slap of a friend is trusted to help you ... but the kisses of an enemy is nothing but lies

Anonymous

#22. It really doesn't matter how the manager is. If you make a mistake and the manager is calm, you still feel terrible for making that mistake. It helps to have a manager who can be cool but as an individual you tend to be in control of your own emotions.

Joleon Lescott

#23. Live concerts were to train the ears and to introduce, constantly, new musical ideas to the audience so the next time they showed up or the next record they would be ready and receptive.

Gail Zappa

#24. I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.'

Channing Tatum

#25. Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.
Gordon Ramsay

Gordon Ramsay

#26. The real friends are out there on you won, on your lost and on your special days. If they aren't there, take it like they aren't your friends, find other friends. This are fake!

Deyth Banger

#27. I forgive you. And with those words, audibly, the frozen part of your heart crumbles.

Haruki Murakami