There is no greater compliment for a writer than to have pleased a troubled child.
With 'Greek Gods,' I wanted to go with the blue and green hues of sky and water; with 'Heroes,' I felt the color needed to be more dramatic and give a sense of battle, rage, and yes, of blood. That's the world these demigods lived in, and I felt that orange and red would also compliment the greenish blue of the 'Gods' cover.
The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.
If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.
For me, it's a compliment to be compared with Marilyn, the unforgettable actress, the most beautiful one of all. But, curves aside, we have very little in common.
I always get compared to looking like a silent movie star - though I don't know if that's a compliment, honestly.
People who have no idea it's me when they first see me playing something, and later they realize, 'That's her from whatever it is,' it's a great compliment that they can forget.
It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.
The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
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.
The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.
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.
To call me gay is a compliment. Also, if I'd been macho, I'd just have had an audience full of men.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
I think calling someone a character is a compliment.
Sometimes being a survivor is the greatest compliment you can get in Hollywood.
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.
And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.
I really lack the words to compliment myself today.
If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
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.
I compliment people when I see something I really like and tell them, 'That was good. Keep doing what you're doing.' That's as much as advice as you will get out of me.
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.
The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.'
Geek? Sure, call me that. I take that as a compliment.
So when they come around and say they want to do our stuff in America, it's compliment really.
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.
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.
You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.
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!
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.
I guess that is a good compliment for an actor for people to hate you wherever you go.
Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.