On two occasions, utility executives I’d never met had looked at me and said, ‘I thought you’d be bigger!’ In a way, I took that as a compliment! – Lynn Good
It’s nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I’ve never considered that that’s how I might be categorized. I guess it’s better than being called ugly. – Ryan Phillippe
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
If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it’s a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable. – Shania Twain
There is no greater compliment for a writer than to have pleased a troubled child. – Rodman Philbrick
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. – Ryan Guzman
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
Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment. – Scott Caan
To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don’t think it’s necessarily deserved. – Sidney Poitier
While I tend to keep embellishment minimal as my clients often possess some of the finest jewellery, I enjoy creating ornamentation that appears like installations, to compliment the overall look. – Stephane Rolland
If you’re going to play a villain, there’s no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares. – Valorie Curry
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. – Shonda Rhimes
The biggest compliment I can ever get as an actor is to have someone say, ‘We didn’t recognize you.’ – Tim Daly
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. – Voltaire
If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors. – Walter Jon Williams
So when they come around and say they want to do our stuff in America, it’s compliment really. – Sean Booth
My husband says I like animals more than I like people. I take that as the compliment he means it as. – Tricia Helfer
The biggest compliment I get is when someone tells me, ‘You’re so real.’ Even if my journey isn’t exactly like theirs. – Tamron Hall