Compliments quotes

“Mr. Charles, this sure is a pleasure! I should have recognized you, seeing the pictures in the papers. I follow all your cases. We still talk about the Thin Man job and the Landis case. Why, it's the slickest detective work in 50 years.”

Arthur Belasco - Policeman

“Con... Con... Con... gra... tu... la... tions, Peter and Eileen on the won... wonderful news. I'm glad you taught me how to speak so I could say that, Eileen.”

Daniel Day-Lewis - Christy Brown

“- Henry Crawford: What? A compliment? Heavens rejoice, she complimented me!
- Fanny Price: I complimented your dancing, Mr. Crawford, keep your wig on.”
Alessandro Nivola - Henry Crawford
Frances O'Connor - Fanny Price

“They're two of the dearest, sweetest, kindest, old ladies that ever walked the Earth. They're out of this world. They're like, they're like pressed rose leaves.”

Edward McNamara - Brophy

“- Lucas: Did you think we'd be such good friends when we first met?
- Maggie: I don't know.
- Lucas: What did you think of me?
- Maggie: I thought you were interesting.
- Lucas: I thought you were beautiful.”
Corey Haim - Lucas
Kerri Green - Maggie

“- Mrs. Sawyer: It was great, honey. And just just wonderful.
- Jody: You wanna know something stupid? I'd actually started to believe I didn't need to hear that anymore.”
Stephen Stout - Mr. Sawyer
Amanda Schull - Jody

“- Danilo: Are you pretty? Or beautiful?
- Sonia: Gorgeous.”
Maurice Chevalier - Danilo
Jeanette MacDonald - Sonia

- Miss Luther: I can't tell you how interested I was in your discussion of "Twelfth Night". It was so intelligent.
- Terry Randall: Oh, thank you very much. I'm afraid that the rest of the inmates didn't share your enthusiasm.
Constance Collier - Miss Luther
Katharine Hepburn - Terry Randall

“- Pam: Sex with you is really a Kafkaesque experience.
- Alvy Singer: Thank you.
- Pam: It's a compliment.”
Shelley Duvall - Pam
Woody Allen - Alwy Singer

“All you people are so scared of me. Most days I'd take that as a compliment. But it ain't me you gotta worry about now.”
Vin Diesel - Richard B. Riddick

“I must congratulate you on your virtuoso performance, my boy. Centauri is impressed. I've seen them come, and I've seen them go, but you're the best, my boy. Dazzling! Light years ahead of the competition! Centauri's got a little proposition for you. Are ya interested?”

Robert Preston - Centauri

- Martin Daniels: He says he doesn't wear a wig, and a person doesn't take it as a compliment if you say, "nice wig".
- Clifford: But I didn't say "nice wig", Uncle Martin, I said "bestest-looking wig". I believe there is a difference.
Charles Grodin - Martin Daniels
Martin Hayter Short - Clifford Daniels

“Colonel, you're a lovely man. I see a great difference between us, yet I admire you. You're an idealist, praise be.”

Kevin Conway - Sgt. "Buster" Kilrain

“Man, that chick has got body karate.”
Phillip Glasser - Max

“How can you stand here beside me and pretend not to remember? Not to know that my heart is breaking for you? That your face is the wonderful light burning in all this darkness?”

Laurence Olivier - Heathcliff

“- Randolph Johnson: You must have something special, that's why Willy didn't eat you up. Maybe high blood, medicine roots.
- Jesse: No way.
- Randolph Johnson: Then you're just one lucky little white boy. You like the sound of that better?”
August Schellenberg - Randolph Johnson
Jason James Richter - Jesse

“- Greenberg: She has very long legs.
- Vicki: Thanks. They go from my ass all the way to the floor.”
Allen Garfield - Greenberg
Jennifer Tilly - Vicki

“- George Peters: When I touched you just now, I started to get excited. What kind of a pervert am I? Staring at a 200 pound pregnant woman, and I'm getting hot!
- Doris: Well, I'll tell you something. That is about the nicest thing that anybody's said to me in months.”
Alan Alda - George Peters
Ellen Burstyn - Doris

“- Eddie: You mean that obese bully?
- Jake Tarlow: Bluto's not obese. He's just a barrel chested guy. He's sexy, suave, he's like a man. Not like Popeye. I mean Bluto was romance, singing to the chick. He's like Cary Grant compared to Popeye.”
Jake La Botz - Eddie
Mark Boone Junior - Jake Tarlow

“- Girl in bar: You're cute.
- Renaldo 'the Heel': Keep talkin', baby. Maybe you'll tell me something I don't already know.”
Bruce Campbell - Renaldo 'The Heel'

“- James Casey: One day I saw you smile, and it really knocked me out. You smiled. It was like the sun breaking out on a gray day.
- Natalie Becker: My face is like a gray day?”
Alan Boyce - James Casey
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Natalie Becker

“- Scott Dantley: I know your father. Great senator, great American, outstanding human being.
- Jack Issel: He's managed to stay out of jail despite the bribery, corruption, tax evasion, solicitation, and domestic abuse charges that have been brought against him. At least me and my mom are proud of him for that.”
Michael O'Donoghue - Scott Dantley
Judge Reinhold - Jack Issel

“I think you are a very capable person and I value you very much. So far, we've made a good team. But, you know, you talk too much.”

Charles Bronson - Major Grigori Borzov

“I hope you think I am as beautiful with my clothes off as I think you are.”
Ana Obregón - Catalina

“- Jack Jericho: Did anyone ever tell you you're too good to be true?
- Randy Jensen: No only that I'm too truthful to be good.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Jack Jericho
Molly Ringwald - Randy Jensen