Top 110 Superficial Quotes

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

I have girls who are concerned about how they look compared to models or what have you. It’s my responsibility to teach them that beauty is more than superficial.

Designer Marc Jacobs ended his sixteen-year tenure at Louis Vuitton with a spring 2014 collection that celebrated fashion in its purest and least complicated form – as majestic, superficial beauty.

I’ve had some marvelous parts, but I’m also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only give everything if they know someone is going to shout cut!

Lawmakers who support CISA will tell you the bill includes some privacy protections. They’re right. But these ‘protections’ are superficial and include broad loopholes that are so far-reaching as to render the protections meaningless.

It’s superficial that people think I’m cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they’re always surprised by how nerdy I am.

I often write about nonreligious people, and I try to find situations where their sense of humanity is restored or discovered. I think you can be a good person in many ways. And I think you often have to be careful that prayer can seem superficial, because it’s a very complicated thing to love your neighbor as yourself.

Sometimes it takes me six months before I find out what a line means, even if the writing is superficial… To do a play right, really, I’d like to take two years of rehearsal. You study the character by living with him.

Critics can be harsh and I think it’s going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I’m not superficial and that I’m not just a pretty face.

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it’s all too superficial for me.

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people’s minds.

Fashion is not superficial; it is a dynamic tool to transform oneself, and it can be used to command the attention of those around you.

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.

I have this thing in my brain that I just wish I lived in a different time era. And I think that’s honestly just because of social media and everything, like phones and the whole shebang. I feel like relationships are more superficial.

I don’t say I create. I copy, of course. I’ve never been interested in the point of view of the tailor or creator. Fashion is a visual impression. This is why I often refuse the name of fashion designer. It’s a superficial, stupid job. The social-psychological aspect is more interesting.

In my own sweet way, I’m quite a superficial person.

I’m just – like, I’m just very over the whole superficial life and world we live in.

The power that you have as a young woman, unless you have great self-esteem, is largely based on how the rest of the world reacts to you. And so it’s kind of a superficial confidence that you have, you know?

I’d read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.

I’ve always hated modeling. It’s superficial and fake, and I hate to have to care about what I look like. I get a pimple and freak. The whole business is all about selling beautiful girls’ faces and bodies, so how can there be anything intelligent or nice about that except for the girl who makes money?

I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.

I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.

Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.

Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.

Industrial design is a superficial practice. You use your approach regardless of the project because there is no time for a deep understanding of a single product.

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

At the surface, many people’s goals are to lose weight, tone up, feel better, etc. But superficial goals get superficial results that usually fade. Dig a little deeper, and the ‘why’ is usually unveiled: to be more confident, to be more happy, to feel sexy again.

A man’s character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

In this industry, it’s sad that a superficial thing like weight loss can actually define your career, but if that is the case, so be it.

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. – Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.

I know it’s superficial, and you can’t measure art, which is supposed to be up to the individual, but I’ve watched the Oscars since I was a baby with my mother.

I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing.

In superficial terms, to have an orchestral career is to be better than others, or at least to be chosen over others on that particular occasion; it is a form of survival.

Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.

L.A. is so fake – girls there are so superficial.

Most men are petrified of standing out in any way or being thought superficial.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

If you get too caught up with the superficial part of beauty, you get too self-conscious.

The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

Obama’s people will all often complain about how trivial and silly the media is, but there’s no president who’s probably benefited from this sort of trivialness or superficial nature as President Obama.

It’s hard for me to be involved in superficial friendships with other women.

I don’t have any hidden depths; I’m a very superficial person. It’s a constant frustration to me.

I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial – what I present to people outwardly – but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it’s not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

I truly believe that getting dressed in the morning is about deciding who you want to be, what you’re saying in the world, and how you want people to see you. It’s so much more than superficial.

The court dramas shown in films and TV are often superficial. They should have a gripping storyline, which can keep the audience hooked.

I just think we tear down women in this country for all these superficial reasons, and women are so great and strong.

The way I work, and the material we work with, I think if you analyze too much and have too many specific ideas, it just becomes a little bit too superficial, and then performances might become too self-conscious and project relatively narrow things.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech.

Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.

It’s nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I’ve never considered that that’s how I might be categorized. I guess it’s better than being called ugly.