For me it's a compliment, playing baddie characters. I take it as a compliment.

- Ben Mendelsohn

To me, when people say, 'Oh, you're a freak athlete,' it's bittersweet. It's a huge compliment to say, 'O.K., you have physical abilities that are kind of above and beyond.' But at the same time, I feel like it diminishes the mental side of the game.

- Colin Kaepernick

A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it.

- Cat Deeley

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.

- Clarence Darrow

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

- Clare Boothe Luce

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

- Bill Walsh

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

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.

- Brent Weeks

'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.

- Bailey Chase

Geek? Sure, call me that. I take that as a compliment.

- Brian Krzanich

Everybody likes a compliment.

- Abraham Lincoln

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.

- Brad Goreski

It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.

- Amy Pascal

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

- Alberto Tomba

Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be accepted as a compliment.

- Alan Zweibel

I wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show.' And I think, no thank you.

- Andy Richter

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

He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!

- Alvin Lee

I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.

- Albert Brooks

You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.

- Alexander McQueen