Shallow Quotes

It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade.
Joan Didion

Writing, Before, After

I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
Rowan Atkinson

Job, Thought, Acting

I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!
Steven Cojocaru

Change, Men, Political

We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.
Thom Yorke

Around, Start, Simply

It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.
Graham Norton

Public, Sounds, Deeply

I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done.
Ewan McGregor

Done, Remember, Few

Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much. But I've been with women over the years when my weight fluctuated, and they're definitely more interested physically when I am in really great shape.
Hank Azaria

Women, Great, Care

Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.
Hank Azaria

Women, Care, Less

I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
Rachel Bilson

School, Before, High

On the surface, it's really easy to dismiss certain characters, but sometimes you find that the most interesting parts are disappointingly shallow. It's your job as an actress to pull that person apart, and work out why they act the way that they do.
Jessica Brown Findlay

Work, Job, Person

Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
Carla Gugino

Women, Movies, Become

It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.
Neil Cavuto

Age, Time, Good

The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.
Erich von Stroheim

Love, Mother, Father

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.
Robert Musil

Stupid, Deep, Means

I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are more shallow.
Sharon Gless

I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women.
Sharon Gless

Women, Men, Whole

People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.
Gary Larson

Work, Deep, Laugh

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.
Will McDonough

Good, Enough, Result

There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.
Gordon Getty

Change, Experience, Deep

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.
Mel Torme

Pretty, Song, Fairness

Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow, but my advice is don't fall prey to the freshmen fifteen!
Cecily von Ziegesar

Advice, College, Realize

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.
Robert D. Kaplan

History, Knowledge, Important

I've been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break.
Brooke Burns

End, Deep, While

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
Rex Stout

Women, Idea, Depth

I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no teeth, I just don't want to date her. It's creepy of me, I wish I was a bigger person, but that's my real turn-off.
Peter Farrelly

Girl, Bad, Real

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.
Charles Lyell

Down, Sometimes, Water

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work.
Colin Wilson

Work, Past, Person

I've been in the shallow end of a pool, just kind of walking around, but this was my first time really swimming - and I was horrified! I actually lost it whenever I saw the edge of the pool. But I took baby steps and rewarded myself every step of the way.
Monique Coleman

Time, End, Lost

The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.
Michael Medved

Same, Problem, Place

Honestly, I'm a shallow performer. I just go with the text and feel my way around it. There's not a whole lot of shaping.
George Wendt

Around, Whole, Honestly

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