Underneath Quotes

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Else, Everyone, Show

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
Johnny Depp

Human, Strange, Behavior

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.
Joan Rivers

Life, Mother, Husband

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
Michael Caine

Calm, Duck, Surface

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
Matt Groening

Love, Night, Racing

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.
Dolly Parton

Heart, Why, Big

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
Quentin Tarantino

Character, Trying, Study

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
Jonathan Swift

Shall, Profound, Useful

The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.
William Shatner

Passion, Silence, Name

I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
David Lynch

Beautiful, Looks, Red

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.
Ani DiFranco

Heart, Mine, Wear

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.
Marian Anderson

Nature, Character, Person

The activity of being a husband, a father - those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that's what's most important.
Hugh Jackman

Husband, Spiritual, Father

No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.
Larry David

Shocked, Bowl, Privately

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
Oscar Levant

Real, Find, Away

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant

Character, Lack, Enormous

It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.
Christian Bale

DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.
Leslie Fiedler

Nice, Nothing, Writing

Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.
David Frost

Power, Simple, Struggle

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
Bruce Springsteen

Music, Best, Patriotism

And on this you have my pledge - unlike in the past, when you stood up and did what was right, this governor will not pull the rug out from underneath you - I will sign strong reform bills.
Chris Christie

Strong, Past, Sign

As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.
Michael Sheen

Else, Actually, General

Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.
Matthew Macfadyen

Find, Nobody, Arrogant

I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them.
Sara Blakely

Work, Find, White

In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
Ziyi Zhang

Time, Beautiful, Long

If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.
Karl Rove

Find, Read, Hand

I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.
Jodi Picoult

Yourself, Person, Find

The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.
Naomi Campbell

Down, Worst, Thick

If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?
Brad Thor

Talk, Full, Half

I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.
Carly Rae Jepsen

Bad, After, Guys

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