Top 99 Shallow Quotes

I don’t work with anybody on the music, of course. But my God, some of the lyrics that other people have written were so shallow: ‘Hey baby this, hey baby that.’ I need substance to the words, you know? Give me depth!

For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.

So many films are being shot on the DSLR, that they’re all starting to look the same. There’s a shallow depth of field. It’s a nice look, but I can always identify a film shot with a DSLR.

I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.

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.

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

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.

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.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

When I was a medical student, a pulmonary professor of mine cajoled me into joining a clinical trial that she was running. The general aim of the tests was to determine whether prolonged periods of short and shallow breathing would cause a person‘s lungs to go into spasm. It turns out, as I can attest, that they do.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

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

Whether it’s pool or Ping Pong, I can’t stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That’s fine. I’d rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.

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.

By the mid-17th century, telescopes had improved enough to make visible the seasonally growing and shrinking polar ice caps on Mars, and features such as Syrtis Major, a dark patch thought to be a shallow sea.

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.

The Hollywood actor business can be a little shallow and can be a little more of a facade, and Nashville and the South, people are genuine and real, so if I can be based out there and go off to Hollywood to do a film or do another TV show and then fly back to Nashville, I’d be set.

I’ve cracked my head open before; I’ve had some great injuries. So I have to do it on the side now. I cracked my head open kiting before a competition in New Caledonia. The water was shallow, and I missed a trick and hit my head on a rock.

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.

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.

A quick shallow fry is a great way to transform leftovers, and no more so than in the case of risotto.

Tomorrow is shallow, but today is as deep as truth.

Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.

It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars.

The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches – all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species in exquisite water was the assignment I had dreamed about from the start.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

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.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

It’s almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.

I don’t try to worry about sounding like anybody because I know I have my own tone, my own sound. It’s just about being honest in a song and trying to relate myself or how to basically break it down as simple as possible for someone to try to understand it. Not being too deep, not being too shallow at the same time.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Deep and simple are far, far more important than shallow and complicated and fancy.

The idea that popular arts were shallow by definition and the traditional arts were profound was dead, I thought, and I wanted to prove it.

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

Lake Garda it’s very different. The northern part of the lake is very much Loch Ness, deep sides, but as soon as you get into the south it opens out. You walk around, you see shallow waters, and you see weeds that should feed a small fish. You think, ‘Ah, this is different’.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Any candidate who claims his religion has no influence on his decisions is either a dishonest politician or a shallow follower of his faith.

I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.

When I first heard Bob Dylan, I’ll be honest, I didn’t like him. But I was shallow of mind and didn’t understand the poetry. I just judged him on his singing and his guitar playing.

The idea that the law should punish what is rude; that government should protect our tender sensibilities from those who would – quite often with shallow motivations but sometimes with deeper and more serious complaints – challenge our national certainties and rituals, should alarm and anger us.

We are all regionalists in our origins, however ‘universal‘ our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root – almost literally.

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

I’m terribly shallow. I don’t miss things once I have stopped doing them, and I don’t miss people when I stop seeing them.

Our breath gets shallow and ineffective when we are in a stressed state. I advocate stopping whatever you’re doing for a couple of minutes five times a day, closing your eyes and taking deep breaths.

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

To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.

If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn’t be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven‘t the patience for them. It’s maybe shallow, but that’s why I’ll never be part of the acting set.

People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but it’s actually not. As an industry, it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it.

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

What’s odd about the selfie stick is that while it might faintly improve the photo you’ll post on Facebook, it definitely makes you seem like a shallow, awful clown to any bystanders in the humdrum physical space you’re posing in.

I believe there is a shallow side to every actor, who craves to be presented well.

We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio – all that noise, that artifice.

Trump, despite his shallow depth of biblical knowledge, plays into both the apocalyptic end-time fears of evangelicals and their nostalgia for a ‘small town‘ America.

Women on the whole are often not as shallow as men are. They can be, but they cut through things a little more easily than men do in terms of that superficial stuff.

There’s nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you’re insightful about it.

The first thing that I see in a woman are her eyes. Sorry, it sounds shallow, but eyes say a lot about a person.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

If that had been my only purpose in life – to call home runs and touchdowns – I’d lead a pretty shallow life.

I love the ideals of my country. But I hate that we’ve been so denied any real knowledge of the world and don’t have the education to think clearly, so we vote against our economic interest and believe in our most shallow first thoughts of fear and hatred.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

There are a bunch of different ways to look at the fashion industry. Is it shallow to work in fashion? Yes, it can be. But does fashion transform a woman who might feel like nothing and unimportant to glamorous and gorgeous? Yes, it does. Does it employ a huge sector of America? Yes, it does.

Some people think Hollywood is shallow. I find that it’s home.

Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it’s a success… is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.

My mother taught me something at a young age – she said ‘you are the company you keep’. To define yourself by some label or some level of resources – that’s pretty shallow.

I’ve done so many movies that are bad, with material that’s so shallow, that you instantly scratch the surface, and there’s nothing underneath.

Even if a song has shallow lyrics, there’s something that you feel, regardless of what their lyrics are.

If football covers all your emotions, that’s too shallow for me.

Up until the time I was cast in ‘Star Trek,’ the roles were pretty shallow – thin, stereotyped, one-dimensional roles. I knew this character was a breakthrough role, certainly for me as an individual actor but also for the image of an Asian character: no accent, a member of the elite leadership team.

There is too much disagreement for disagreement’s sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our public debate.

There’s a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There’s an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it’s vulgar, shallow and banal.

These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake – add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem – and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow.

It’s a fallacy that people think that today’s teenagers are shallow or somehow less intelligent than in the past.

All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

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.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

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.

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn’t have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

In 1976, Jimmy Carter – peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that – somewhat tapped America’s durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure.

Our culture is all about shallow relationships. But that doesn’t mean we should stop looking each other in the eye and having deep conversations.

When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8 rounds of chemo, one of my first questions admittedly was: ‘Will I lose my hair?’ It sounds shallow, I know, but it was a very scary image to me.

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

Women are considered deep – why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

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.

I have that special sort of novelist body of knowledge which is extraordinarily wide and very, very shallow. So I can usually answer the questions on ‘Jeopardy,’ but never the bonus question.

To me, self-care isn’t really shallow. Showing up for yourself, putting on a little moisturizer, can inspire so many different parts of your life.

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.

I think people find it so easy to write off teenagers and millennials as just being like these shallow, self-centered people who don’t have anything real going on and who are always just on their cell phones. But being a teenager is really hard.

I’m just shocked at how blatantly shallow people are sometimes.

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

Workaholics typically have a lot of achievement with very little appreciation of what they have, whether it’s cars or friendships or otherwise. That is a shallow victory. Then you have people with a lot of appreciation and no achievement, which is fine, but it doesn’t create a lot of good in the world.

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.

The toilet from time to time imparted to the boat the scent of a cholera hospital and could be flushed only when the U-boat was on the surface or at shallow depths, lest the undersea pressure blow material back into the vessel.

I don’t read enough books, so I guess I’m pretty shallow. I’m a lot into the physical. With me, first attraction is never intellectual.

Every year, tens of millions of salmon return to the pristine shores of Bristol Bay in Alaska. They linger in the bay‘s cool, shallow waters before charging up nearby streams to spawn and create another generation of wild salmon.

To work for the good of our country is not a shallow thing.

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.