It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.
I think ‘crazy’ is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.
I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That’s like a free compliment and you don’t even gotta be smart to notice it.
To call me gay is a compliment. Also, if I’d been macho, I’d just have had an audience full of men.
People call me Joey all the time. I take it as a compliment. There’s no point in correcting them. But I’m much more even-keeled and subdued and relaxed than Joey Tribbiani.
The greatest compliment that anyone can pay me is that after I say something, they remember it. I’ll go over a piece of copy until I’ve gotten the essence of what the writer had in mind – every nuance.
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
The best compliment we ever got on ‘Clone Wars’ was a parent coming up and telling me that it was something they could watch with their kids. I really love that.
I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.
The biggest compliment that I receive is when other black folks come up to me and say, ‘You changed the way that I thought about Chris Darden.’
Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.
I’ve been sampled so much and I’m glad it’s happened, it’s a great compliment.
I will tell you that 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.’
Well, I guess this sex symbol stuff is a nice compliment, but I don’t walk around thinking of myself as a sex symbol.
The best compliment for a director is that an audience hates their films.
‘Pretty Lady’ is the conversation piece where you just need to compliment your lady. If you are in a club setting, and you just been eyeing a beautiful woman, this song came from me trying to compliment women and them turning their face up at me.
It is often said of me – some intend it as a compliment, others as a complaint – that I write about a single subject: the Holocaust. I have no quarrel with that. Why shouldn’t I accept, with certain qualifications, the place assigned to me on the shelves of libraries?
I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It’s not a boring way to describe me.
My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.
Obviously, you want to wear the whites. If someone calls you a Test player, there is no bigger compliment.
Players very widely disagree with me about what’s hard and what’s easy. and in a way, ‘I won, but it was a fight’ is the best compliment a game can receive.
I’m not easily offended so whether it be a compliment or a derogatory comment, it really doesn’t bother me.
It’s been amazing to watch, because for ‘Thor’, which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.
I like other people to talk about me. I’ll admit if I do well or not after a game. I just don’t want to compliment myself.
The more words I learned, the more I started to verbalize my feelings. Whenever my mom or dad would compliment me by saying something like ‘Good boy,’ I’d immediately correct them. ‘No. Good girl.’
It’s a massive compliment to me to be known in Asia because Asia is the way forward in football, along with the Middle East. I believe that strongly.
I’ve noticed though that people will always assume you are the character you last played. I guess it’s a compliment to playing your character convincingly.
I guess that is a good compliment for an actor for people to hate you wherever you go.
The compliment that I like more than anything is when my family tells me I’m the same Ryan. I never want to become a celeb who forgets about anybody or has a big head about himself.
I have blue eyes, and before I knew anything about fashion – I’m talking about the second grade – I learned I would get a compliment if I wore a blue shirt.
When people compliment me, I don’t put much meaning into them, but when they say bad things, I take them too seriously. I try to fix this mentality, but it’s hard.
Comfort is important. I wanna put jeans on and kind of forget about them unless someone is giving me a compliment on how they look. You don’t want to be fussing all day, especially as a working woman or a mom running around with kids.
Everyone knows that a compliment goes a very long way, and you never know what someone’s going through in their life – giving them a compliment might mean the world to them.
When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.
It feels great when young mothers compliment me and ask me how I lost weight.
‘Populism’ is a compliment to me. We envision a different Europe where every E.U. country should have the freedom to decide its own economic policies.
Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That’s quite a title to carry around.
I remember once doing a gig in Ireland, and there was a woman jumping around and screaming, ‘I don’t know what this is but I love it!’ I thought that was a nice compliment.
I compliment President Obama on having these summits each year in Washington in which people have talked about ridding the world of materials of mass destruction.
Always compliment someone if you can, I think.
I love ‘hearing a person’s face’ in their music. I’ve been told by fans that they can tell when I’m smiling or feeling mischievous in my voice – that’s a huge compliment.
What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that’s exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.
Napster is great so long as they put out tracks on there that have been officially released. I don’t really mind people downloading my music; I also see it as a compliment. And if you are a real music lover, you want to have the original CD anyway ’cause then you feel more connected to the artist.
Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I’m on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that’s great.
The greatest compliment is I am accused of being a Dem leftie and a Republican righty. I am a pragmatist. I call it as I see it.
If you set the attractiveness bar really low, people have to compliment you on your looks when they meet you in person. I’m pretty much a genius. I’m actually applying to work at the Genius Bar based on this trick.
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don’t be ridiculous. Maybe it’s because I’m British. To me, Julia Roberts that’s a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!
One critic called me nothing but a blues singer, as though that was a slight. That is the highest compliment there is.
The biggest compliment I get is when someone tells me, ‘You’re so real.’ Even if my journey isn’t exactly like theirs.
Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’, as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.
The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
I don’t know why, but it means a lot to get a compliment from a woman.
If we’re compared to Metallica, the greatest metal band in the world, I think that’s actually a pretty damn good compliment.
I have readers everywhere: from a radiologist who decides to compliment me on my writing while inserting a probe to check my ovaries to 80-year-olds who send me emails. And, of course, women my age everywhere.
By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
And I know the risks of changing captaincy midway through a season. At Derby, it was a great compliment when Paul Jewell handed me the armband, and I was made captain of my fourth Premier League club, but it was awkward for Matt Oakley, who had it taken away from him.
