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I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

Errol Morris

Tags: Think I Think Someone

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Mark Twain

Tags: Good Live I Can

My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.

Tori Spelling

Tags: Life Kind Whole

I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.

Roy Ayers

Tags: Great Been Much

A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.

Vesta Williams

Tags: People Me Lot

Sometimes people say, 'You're the best at digressions.' And that's actually a real compliment to me.

Mike Birbiglia

Tags: Best You People

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

Scott Caan

Tags: Good Me His

Someone told me I had funny facial expressions. I don't know whether I take that as a compliment or not, but.

Lucy Punch

Tags: Funny Me Know

If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.

Shania Twain

Tags: Just Out Then

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

Minna Antrim

Tags: Truth Who Never

The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.

Burton Cummings

Tags: Like Think Get

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.

Samuel Butler

Tags: Respect His Kind

Someone very important once told me, 'You can make almost everything look great.' That's the best compliment I have received till date.

Nimrat Kaur

Tags: Great Best You

When people say to me, 'You're like the Anna Kournikova who wins,' I definitely take it as a compliment, because she's quite gorgeous.

Amanda Beard

Tags: You People Me

I smile every time I hear that I'm a fan favorite or a teenage hottie. It is a nice compliment, and the remarks from the fans are great.

Sean Berdy

Tags: Time Great Smile

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.

Mario Monti

Tags: Always Been Which

I always wonder if what I'm wearing will be something that people would compliment, or want to wear. I don't ever get ready just for myself, ever.

Jessica Simpson

Tags: People Just Get

A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.

Idina Menzel

Tags: Me Know Which

When people call me either a girl crush or their best friend, like, the best friend they want, that's, to me, the best compliment anyone could ever give me.

Mindy Kaling

Tags: Best People Me

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.

Ethel Waters

Tags: Me Who Know

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.

Jackson Pollock

Tags: You Who He

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.

Eleanor Catton

Tags: People Me Like

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.

Josh Brolin

Tags: You People Just

It's pretty cool that artists like Flo Rida and Bingo Players can be inspired to interpret a song like 'Piano in the Dark' in completely new genres. As an artist and writer, it's the highest compliment we can be paid.

Brenda Russell

Tags: Cool Like New

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.

Casey Kasem

Tags: Me Had Go

I was honored to wear 'Arizona' across my chest. I am extremely blessed to have my education completely paid for and take part in the great tradition of Wildcat softball. To have my jersey number retired was the ultimate compliment.

Jennie Finch

Tags: Great Education Am

You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.

Tommy Chong

Tags: You About Them

The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.

Vanessa Mae

Tags: Great Music Best

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.

Ralph Lauren

Tags: Design Like Think

There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.

Talib Kweli

Tags: Music People Get

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.

Jana Kramer

Tags: Fear People 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?

Imre Kertesz

Tags: Me About Some

The three of us just try put our heads down and stay creative. The awards truly are just cake. It's one of those things that you never expect, but getting the head nod from either the fans or your peers, that's the ultimate compliment.

Hillary Scott

Tags: You Just Your

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.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Tags: You Me Think

There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

Matthew McConaughey

Tags: Cool Really Want

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