People say I look like a vampire. I don’t know whether to take that as a compliment or not.
My husband says I like animals more than I like people. I take that as the compliment he means it as.
Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don’t like being summarised. It’s nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.
Marlon Brando was the major influence in my life, though I never met him. And my father – we didn’t get along, but he was an influence in terms of honesty and work ethic. That’s the greatest compliment I could pay him.
I take it as a compliment when people want to click photos with us. But at times, it is pretty intrusive. People think that because we come on the big screen or on television, they have a right over us.
I’ve been asked to endorse lots of different pieces of equipment. It’s not necessarily that it’s an awful thing to be asked to endorse something, because it’s inherently a compliment to your skills, your abilities, on a level. But sometimes it’s just not the right fit.
That’s the compliment I get most often – ‘You guys are so honest.’
Varun is good-looking, muscular and talented. I don’t want the girls to think that ‘Oh he is taken, we can’t drool over him and Divya will get upset.’ I like when girls compliment him.
It is probably the best validation, the best compliment: that when somebody says you are getting good things in life, and you deserve this.
I remember the 2015 World Cup looking up at the scoreboard and seeing that big Hublot sign and that clock and I just think it’s a real compliment to the game of cricket.
It’s a huge compliment that people continue to cast me in different types of roles believing in me and the fact that I can carry it off.
A game manager – I wish people would call me that. That’s a compliment.
I was a bit scared because I came from the acting world. There was a fear that people would think of me kind of as a joke. But really, people think of me as a country artist who can act. That’s my favorite compliment.
The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he provoked – really, forced – difficult thinking about consequential matters and internal questioning of one’s own assumptions, often without quick or clear resolution.
It’s nice to compliment people on what they’re wearing, but don’t make insincere compliments.
I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense.
I compliment people when I see something I really like and tell them, ‘That was good. Keep doing what you’re doing.’ That’s as much as advice as you will get out of me.
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
I’m a sucker for a compliment.
I don’t understand women who don’t encourage each other. I think compliments and showing affection are really important, too. Women don’t do that enough, and it’s so essential because even if you’re shy about giving a compliment, it’s good energy; it’s uplifting.
You can give me credit on a skilled sport – golf, basketball – but when it comes to someone’s appearance – how often do guys compliment another man on anything? They find it feminine.
The Chitranna song from Buddhivanta’ has done wonders and turned things around for me. Everyone’s humming it, including kids, and that’s a huge compliment.
The biggest compliment to me is that guys really approach me and they have a connection with me, so there must be something I’m doing that is authentic, otherwise they wouldn’t connect with me so strongly. It’s a real compliment.
The cities that I go to where I can tell that they have a lot of different types of drag, I tell them that they remind me of Brooklyn, and I mean that as the highest compliment in the entire world.
The biggest compliment I can ever get as an actor is to have someone say, ‘We didn’t recognize you.’
I want to compliment myself for becoming someone with a strong color.
The best compliment is when other parents invite your children to come over, or stay overnight. Afterward, I hear how well-behaved and respectful they were. I think that’s one of the most wonderful compliments you can get as a parent.
The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.
‘You’re beautiful’ was the compliment I craved so much. I didn’t care if people called me smart or innovative – it was the number-one compliment I gave out to other women hoping it was given back to me. I heard people saying it to my best friends. It was the one I wanted to hear more than anything else.
I think it’s flattering when people say I’m a role model, but I don’t think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word ‘role model.’ I’m not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
I don’t believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I’ve been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man.
If my assistant goes off and becomes successful, and people want to work with him, I’d take that as a compliment that I’d trained them well.
The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids – and I can say that this does happen frequently – is when the in-flight crew say to me, ‘Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.’ Every time I am told that, I could weep.
Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I’m asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes.
Filmmakers would compliment my work, but when casting for a heroine, they’d never think of me.
I’m really not sure what people think or expect me to be, but I am surprised when people say, ‘You’re not supposed to be like that… ‘ I’m not exactly sure what ‘that’ is, so I choose to take it as a compliment.
The best compliment you can give a hitter is he’s a tough out; that initiates fear in a pitcher.
It’s always nice to receive a compliment.
A huge part of my life is my job, and that’s the highest compliment you can pay to any job.
I like when my freckles show or when I do shoots and they accentuate them. It’s such a compliment.
In India, when someone calls you sexy, they don’t mean it as a compliment; it has derogatory connotations.
Even though wrestling is getting more popular – wrestling being more popular than it was five years ago is like being the nicest guy in prison, it’s not a huge compliment, but it’s still taking place.
Someone very important once told me, ‘You can make almost everything look great.’ That’s the best compliment I have received till date.
I have lots of people tell me I’m beautiful and ask if I’m a model, but the biggest compliment I got was a fan came up to me and said, ‘You’re the best female technical wrestler.’ That’s the one compliment that sticks out.
People asking my teammates, ‘Is Arrieta a guy who’d try to cheat the system?’ Honestly, hearing that kind of stuff come from some of the best players in baseball is honestly a compliment. I view it that way.
Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.
To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don’t think it’s necessarily deserved.
There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‘Oh, you’re playing yourself.’ I guess it’s kind of a compliment. Or people say, ‘Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.’ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.
One of Rani Ma’am friend told my mother, ‘Thank you for taking birth’ because of which we get to see this actor. That, for me, is the most beautiful compliment ever.
Well, anytime you’re compared to Derek Jeter, it’s the ultimate compliment.
Drama is basically what I do, so it’s a compliment that people think it’s hard for me to get back to drama.
It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.
I really don’t even know how to take a compliment honestly.
I go down the street, people see me: ‘Hey, I pity-‘ right on, man, that’s a compliment to me.
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
Just don’t let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y’know, just take the compliment and be thankful that people are complimenting you, but don’t let it consume you; don’t let your circumstances around you and the way people view you make you act a certain way.
As far as my projects are concerned, I have always maintained a healthy balance. My south Indian projects have never taken a backseat even though I’ve been busy in Hindi. Both regions have loved me, and being wanted by both the north and south film industries is a compliment by itself.
I’m Irish. I don’t know how to take a compliment.
When I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, ‘You’ve got such a beautiful face,’ in the way of, like, ‘Oh, isn’t it a shame that from the neck down you’re questionable.’
