Robert Altman Quotes

I mean, I'm always happy to be compared with Scorsese!

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

I don't quite know what an auteur is.

I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

I'm a sucker for a compliment.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

The biggest mistake people make about me is that they see me as some sort of god-like figure with a big ego. If I see a button, a T-shirt, that says, 'Yngwie is God,' I just look at it as a complimentary way of people telling me they like me. Although it's very flattering, it doesn't change the way I look at myself.

Thank you Stephanie, you’re the breast… I mean best!

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

A guy calls me a genius, and I'm going to renounce? I'm not going to renounce him.

I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean.

My girlfriend just told me I am one of the smartest people she knows. I told her, You need to meet other people.

Don't thank the lord, I gave you that compliment... Thank me.

The only sure way of avoiding these evils [vanity and boasting] is never to speak of yourself at all. But when, historically, youare obliged to mention yourself, take care not to drop one single word that can directly or indirectly be construed as fishing for applause.

What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself.

I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.

If nothing else, I'm a decent quote.

No no no! Don't clap! No no no, you make me seem like I'm like a prophet or something and I'm so not!

I think everybody you know, we all have a sense of humor and I'm not one to take myself too seriously.

Girls are always like, 'Oh, you're much better-looking in person than in pictures.' I'm kinda like, 'Er, thank you? I think? As in, I'm not as ugly as you thought?'

Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.

I find Donald Trump to be incredibly gracious, energetic, I mean the greatest compliment you can get from Donald Trump is not hey, that's brilliant or that was really smart or great job. It's you're really high energy.

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.