Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you’ve become a comfortable, trusted element in another person’s life.
It’s a great compliment to be compared to Michael Jackson, but people are starting to realize now that I’m just me, and that’s all I want to to be.
My first interaction with Vidya Balan was inside her vanity van and I was dressed up in my character. As I stepped into her van, she looked at me and screamed. That was like a compliment for me.
It’s a huge compliment to be seen as a dramatic actress and not just a comic actress.
I received many compliments for my work as Kavya. The best compliment is when people tell me that they learn from my character and love the way Kavya reacts to every situation, how real she is and how she stands tall all by herself.
I’ve met kids right out of the Olympics who tell me they can’t wait to be introduced by me. After a fight, fighters say, ‘Being introduced by you, what a thrill.’ That’s probably the best compliment I can get.
It’s a big compliment that so many people want to see me. For them, it’s all about football. That’s what they remember about me.
Sometimes being a survivor is the greatest compliment you can get in Hollywood.
The greatest compliment a coach can get from another coach around the league is, ‘Hey, your guys play hard. They’re tough.’
Well, you know, the best compliment I’ve ever gotten from a coworker is Anna Drezen, who is a longtime friend of mine from college, which she was like – one day she turned to me and she said, you know, Bowen, you make video games seem accessible or you make it seem – you make them seem less esoteric or whatever she said.
When a little kid comes up to me and asks for an autograph, that’s the most amazing compliment I can even imagine.
People don’t usually compliment your character.
If you take it as a compliment that you don’t look your age, then you’re really shooting yourself in the foot.
When I was part of McGregor’s sparring camp, I struggled to find words to compliment him; I knew he couldn’t fight from the first moment we sparred. It’s very hard to find nice things to say about his skills. Perhaps his best attribute is his intensity, but he has to do it cleanly.
Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I’m a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, ‘Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!’ and I took that as a great compliment. That’s exactly my intention.
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
People always say to me, ‘You have such a clearly defined sense of style,’ and when I hear it, I get crazed, because what I hear – and I know they mean it as a compliment – is that I have such a narrow vision that I can’t get out of it.
When a director you admire says that he wants to work with you, it’s always a compliment, very good for your ego.
I’ll downplay myself before I compliment myself.
I take it as a compliment to be compared with a legend like Kishore Kumar.
People compliment me and if I ignore them, it doesn’t mean I’m rude. It just means I’m embarrassed.
When ‘Mardaani’ came out, one of the great compliments was that we hated the character but we loved the guy. So that was a great compliment to get, especially from female fans.
‘Longmire’ is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn’t pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Kurt Vonnegut said, ‘The best of Bob and Ray is virtually indistinguishable from the worst.’ I’m sure he meant that as a compliment.
I take the fact that people cast me more in negative roles as a compliment.
The media has been nice to me so far, but if I get compared to Channing one more time… I’m taking it as a compliment, but it is crazy how many times people have compared me to him. I don’t know if ‘Magic Mike’ is in my future, but we’ll see.
People still come to me and compliment me on ‘Bobby.’
Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It’s a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
I am suggesting that as we go through life, we ‘accentuate the positive.’ I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn’t have any beginning or any end. He didn’t mean it as a compliment, but it was.
Being embraced by the British people is a beautiful compliment for me. It feels very special.
When we came out with ‘Lazy Sunday,’ the greatest compliment I heard was that Questlove had it on his iPod.
Calling a show a ‘guilty pleasure’ is like saying ‘I’m embarrassed to say I watch it but I can’t stop.’ That’s not a compliment.
Tell me I’m beautiful, it’s nothing. Tell me I’m intellectual – I know it. Tell me I’m funny, and it’s the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me.
I used to get these reviews in American newspapers saying that they didn’t understand what my lyrics were about. I saw that as a compliment. That’s exactly what English songwriters should be doing!
My voice has definitely been my plus point and many compliment me for the power of my vocal chords.
I love Penelope Cruz and Tilda Swinton, and I love Marisa Tomei. I feel like I get compared to her a lot, which I think is the biggest compliment, because she’s incredible. Debi Mazar I get a lot, and I love her, because I feel like we have similar stories. New York, club kid, just a complete train wreck, very independent.
As a designer, when someone wears my clothes, the biggest compliment I can receive is that the woman looks amazing because my designs have flattered her, not taken over her. I take that philosophy to heart myself each morning when I am getting ready for the day.
Everyone thinks they went to high school with me. I take it as a compliment that I look different in every role.
I think calling someone a character is a compliment.
When a man makes a woman his wife, it’s the highest compliment he can pay her, and it’s usually the last.
It comes to a point where a lot of people don’t know if I’m a man or a woman. I find it quite a compliment.
If there are people who admire us and what we do, that’s a huge compliment. As long as it doesn’t get too crazy.
I compliment Kramer perfectly. We both put in a lot of legwork, win many balls, and we’re comfortable with the ball at our feet. We also talk a lot both off and on the pitch.
For me it’s a compliment, playing baddie characters. I take it as a compliment.
I have to tell you, you can’t have an ego when you’re an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.
A few people have called me the U.K.’s Kylie Jenner, which is a big compliment.
It’s not annoying to get a compliment.
My favourite compliment now is that people are talking about my acting, my craft – not my torso.
I went to my boss, and I said, ‘Look, I’d like to design these ties because I think they could be new.’ He said, ‘The world isn’t ready for Ralph Lauren.’ I never forgot that because… I thought that was a compliment.
The best compliment came from Knopf’s Sonny Mehta. We were at lunch in New York with my editor, Gary Fisketjon, it was my first time meeting Sonny, and after ordering our food, he turned to me and said, ‘Adam, I read ‘Mr. Peanut’ in two days; every page surprised me, and that, I can assure you, doesn’t happen often.’
I think it’s his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song.
I’ve been cast as myself so many times, I guess I should catch on and figure out if it’s a compliment.
I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one.
To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a thriving companion economy to compliment production agriculture in rural America.
The greatest compliment I get about my writing is when people say, ‘How did you know so much about me?’ And of course, the answer is very simple: ‘I just observed myself without sentimentality.’
That was the biggest compliment that I can receive – making somebody wonder whether they have the problem, rather than what my problem is.
I guarantee that if you ask anyone who is guarding me, they won’t say I’m taking plays off. It’s actually a compliment to me that I make the game look that easy, where people think I don’t play that hard.
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
That’s a very nice compliment, for somebody to be described as having grit, having some gravel in the gut.
