Top 120 Underrated Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Underrated Quotes from famous people such as Mike Conley Jr., Rick Astley, Jeff Van Gundy, John C. McGinley, Future, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I'm tired of being underrated. I'm tired of being overl

I’m tired of being underrated. I’m tired of being overlooked.
Mike Conley Jr.
I think Phil Collins is one of the most underrated musicians, singers, performers – he is absolutely amazing, I think, and I think he’s probably got a bit of a rough ride occasionally because he became so mainstream and so popular.
Rick Astley
Systems are overrated; players are underrated.
Jeff Van Gundy
I’ve always thought Ed Burns was a profoundly underrated actor. He’s a great director, obviously. A great director/writer. But I think he’s a stunning actor, too.
John C. McGinley
I wouldn’t say I’m underrated, but more reserved. Only time will tell, but I’ve been good so far in being consistent and making hit after hit writing for myself and other artists, from rap to R&B, and being able to make those different records.
Future
Sports is remarkably cognitive. I think it’s underrated just how smart it is. Actually, if I had more time, I would spend more time with sports. Watching it, reading about it, I think it’s oddly underrated.
Tyler Cowen
I really dig The Byrds. I think they are the most underrated – in their original form – pop group.
Bruce Johnston
As long as I can get Bobby Heenan in my corner, then I’m a happy man because, to me, Bobby Heenan is one of the most underrated performers of all time. He’s in my top five of all time performers because I don’t think people realize just how good he was.
Austin Aries
The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.
Elon Musk
It’s funny how getting older – or being overlooked and underrated for more than two decades – can make you change your ambitions.
Reg E. Cathey
I think it would be pompous to say I am an underrated actor. I don’t think it is for me to think and decide; it is for people to decide. But I am glad I am underrated than being overrated – that is something I would find hard to digest.
Randeep Hooda
I love going to Columbia, Missouri. That is a really underrated campus. It shocked me when I went there because I really didn’t know what to expect. I have four boys, and if they ever ended up saying they wanted to go to Missouri, I’d be very happy for them.
Kirk Herbstreit
R. Murray Shcafer is a Canadian composer with a twist. Aside from writing incredibly ethereal music, he is also an acousitc ecologist, fighting for the sonic space on this planet to be beautiful – a rare and shamefully underrated cause.
Weyes Blood
Can I just say that PBR is one of the most underrated beers of all time? And good God it’s cheap.
Jemele Hill
I feel like I’ve been very underrated and very kind of disrespected so far in my career. I just take the same approach every time out: try to go out there and dominate and be the best player on the court.
Seth Curry
I don’t understand the public, but I do believe the public is oversold and underrated every day. Give the people something interesting, something to chew on, I say.
Ry Cooder
Life’s most underrated emotion is self-pity.
Lionel Shriver
Even if I win the belt, I’m going to be underrated. It is what is it.
Gegard Mousasi
I think L.A. is underrated, and I love L.A., and I was born in California. But I’m pretty sure New York is the best city in the world – at least for an American guy like me.
Alan Yang
Gail Kim has done so much and has so much knowledge. I think she’s extremely underrated. She wants the product to be great and she doesn’t mind taking the extra time to get it there. That is a really invaluable thing to me.
Tessa Blanchard
I think Robitussin is way underrated.
Colin Hanks
Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.
Eli Roth
The divinely talented Adam Arkin. So underrated. Every time I do a piece and they go, ‘You know, you need a husband in this,’ I ask, ‘Can Adam Arkin do it?’
Annie Potts
Creative satisfaction is highly underrated. When you don’t have it, the money doesn’t spend nearly as well.
Sean Waltman
I know a lot of crime writers feel very underrated, like they’re not taken seriously, and they want to be just thought of as writers rather than ghettoised as crime writers, but I love being thought of firmly as a crime writer.
Sophie Hannah
I do a lot of planks. I feel like the plank is the most underrated core workout; that’s one of my go-to moves.
Aaron Judge
I’ve known Russell Allen for over a decade now, and I’ve always thought he was a very underrated singer. He has one of the best voices in the business I’ve ever heard.
Mike Portnoy
Beaujolais is so underrated.
Gary Vaynerchuk
If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is ‘Quest for Fire.’ That was one of the most genius, simplistic but incredibly sophisticated notion of what it was. The evolution of that was just fantastic.
Ridley Scott
I think Ferguson is underrated. I think it’s an amazing show. They all have something different to offer, but I think Craig Ferguson has one of the most interesting monologues in late-night because he basically does stand-up.
Baron Vaughn
While working for Diplomat Records, I helped several artists with their online branding and social media. Once I left the label, I worked directly with artists and noticed many artists were overlooked and underrated if they weren’t in ‘XXL’ or ‘The Source.’
Karen Civil
I know I'm underrated.

I know I’m underrated.
Gegard Mousasi
I’m going to be a little bit biased, but I feel Sonya Deville is very underrated.
Paige
Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
Anna Deavere Smith
It’s our most underrated value, I think, as human beings is our sense of humor. It’s how we choose our friends.
Philip Rosenthal
Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you’ve finished work is very underrated!
Saffron Burrows
I’ve always been an underrated passer.
Brandon Ingram
I’m attracted to the underrated characters.
Tim Crouch
Wood carving is such an amazing skill and very underrated; once you cut it, it’s hard to go back.
Jonathan Anderson
The drummer is the backbone of the band and is the real underrated one.
Bernard Sumner
I’ve talked to my dad about road course racing more than anybody. I feel like he was a very underrated road course racer, so he’s probably been more helpful than anybody even at HMS.
Chase Elliott
It’s very flattering to be remembered as a Bond girl with brains and not just for looking good in a bikini. I was a fan of Sophie Marceau in ‘The World Is Not Enough.’ I think her performance was very underrated.
Eva Green
I think Phil Collins is one of the most underrated musicians, singers, performers – he is absolutely amazing, I think, and I think he’s probably got a bit of a rough ride occasionally because he became so mainstream and so popular.
Rick Astley
My whole life people underrated me.
Andy Ruiz Jr.
Listen, I’ve been pretty fortunate. And if I’ve been underrated, it’s actually been something I’ve been able to work with; I can surprise people. It sets me up to exceed expectations, so I don’t mind.
Brad Pitt
The Loved One has been the most underrated film I’ve worked on.
Terry Southern
I definitely feel like I’m underrated.
DeAndre Hopkins
Pico Union is an underrated part of L.A., and not a lot of people go unless you live there.
Roy Choi
I do a lot of planks. I feel like the plank is the most underrated core workout; that’s one of my go-to moves.
Aaron Judge
Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it’s the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that.
David Zucker
I’ve always been an underrated passer.
Brandon Ingram
Honestly, I think that ghee is underrated. I love using clarified butter. I think it makes vegetables taste so good, especially when you’re just cooking at home.
Kiernan Shipka
Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.
David Steinberg
The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.
Elon Musk
I think the word respect is underrated.
Michael Clarke
Life’s most underrated emotion is self-pity.
Lionel Shriver
Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.
Jacob K. Javits
Steve Hackett is a very underrated writer and actually a very good singer.
Chris Squire
Can I just say that PBR is one of the most underrated beers of all time? And good God it’s cheap.
Jemele Hill
I’m happy that grime remains underground. A lot of people talk like it’s some underrated or ignored genre, but to me, that’s the beauty of it.
Skepta
I think that Manila is underrated in terms of food in the Philippines.
Andrew Zimmern
I just love westerns. One of my favourite actors is John Wayne, probably one of the most underrated actors there’s ever been. He’s quite an incredible actor.
Ray Winstone
I think that Manila is underrated in terms of food in t

I think that Manila is underrated in terms of food in the Philippines.
Andrew Zimmern
I think Kylie’s underrated… Cool is knowing yourself and I think Kylie Minogue really knows who she is and doesn’t try to be anything else.
Tricky
I think I’ll die underrated, but it’s alright, man.
Fat Joe
I think L.A. is underrated, and I love L.A., and I was born in California. But I’m pretty sure New York is the best city in the world – at least for an American guy like me.
Alan Yang
I’m a huge Muppets fan. Gigantic. I think they’re genius. I think they’re some of the best work out there and completely underrated, just because of how genius they are. I love that kind of humor. It’s so innocent but brilliant.
Andie MacDowell
Being in recovery for a lot of years now, I’ve worked with a lot of people who’ve gotten sober and sat with a lot of folks who are suffering. Bearing witness is a really underrated thing; it’s a big damn deal.
Mary Gauthier
There are many roles and I haven’t had the opportunity to do any of them. I jokingly tell people ‘Sometimes I wonder, is the film industry waiting for me to die and then say it’s sad. He was a good actor. He was underrated and didn’t have enough chances.’
Ashish Vidyarthi
I agree when others say I am underrated as an actor… When you give super-hit films, then only you are considered as a good actor. At least, that is how it is there in our industry. I think you need to be successful to be appreciated.
Shahid Kapoor
I’m the most underrated driver.
Denny Hamlin
Punting is an underrated art because of the strategy, skill and athleticism involved.
Skip Bayless
His work isn’t all glower. Even though he hasn’t smiled in a movie since the underrated ‘Proof’ in the early 1990s, Mr. Crowe is given to a hurt swallow when he’s uncomfortable and to a look of suffering in his eyes.
Elvis Mitchell
‘Underrated.’ That is the word that best describes Prince, the Guitarist. Why? Because his phenomenal guitar-playing was just one arrow in a quiver full of remarkable talents.
Tom Morello
Brock Lesnar is an extraordinary, underrated forward thinker. Every day of Brock’s life, he is smarter than he was the day before.
Paul Heyman
People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.
Jennifer Aniston
I think integrity is underrated.
Michael Clarke
Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don’t want to, they shouldn’t be novelists. I think story-telling is important and underrated.
Susan Howatch
I feel like my wrestling and jiu-jitsu is so underrated.
Dustin Poirier
Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.
Eli Roth
I don’t know if it’s underrated or not but I have confidence in my speed and my quickness around the court.
Jack Sock
I have to say… Justine Bateman may be the most underrated sitcom actress ever.
Ron Eldard
‘Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead’ is one of the most underrated films. There were even different cuts of it. A wonderful film.
William Forsythe
Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.
Jacob K. Javits
I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor.
Bob Lilly
Do I feel underrated? Yes. Does that bother me? No, not really.
Khris Middleton
Donna Summer was one of the strongest female singers in pop music. She was very underrated as a vocalist and a writer, and her songbook is just outrageous.
Annaleigh Ashford
Lyrics are so important, but they’re really underrated.
Billie Eilish
Honestly, I think that ghee is underrated. I love using clarified butter. I think it makes vegetables taste so good, especially when you’re just cooking at home.
Kiernan Shipka
Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He’s very underrated.
Ritchie Blackmore
I feel like I’ve been very underrated and very kind of disrespected so far in my career. I just take the same approach every time out: try to go out there and dominate and be the best player on the court.
Seth Curry
My mum, who died in 2011, was the most loving mother you could ask for. She was very compassionate, always a good listener, and her love was a constant throughout my life. She was very sympathetic, kind and understanding and I think these values can be underrated.
Fiona Bruce
I’m definitely underrated. By far.
E-40
I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years

I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.
Daryl Hall
Nothing about football is underrated.
Doug Pederson
I would definitely say the WWE superstars are underrated athletically. In fact, that’s one of the things that always attracted me to wrestling.
Kane
I’ve always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he’s a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.
Tyler Perry
I have been blessed to have been working since I was 11. I think horror is an underrated genre. When done really well like in ‘The Ruins’, it pays homage to some of the stuff I really love in the ’70s and incurs some of that energy the fanbase really wants to see.
Jonathan Tucker
To me, I would say that Cesar is underrated. As a defender, he has got everything. He’s quick; he’s got that desire, passion for the game. He just wants to play football. Azpilicueta is never tired. He can run all night in every minute. He wants to play every game.
Victor Moses
Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.
Richard Branson
Systems are overrated; players are underrated.
Jeff Van Gundy
I wouldn’t say I’m underrated, but more reserved. Only time will tell, but I’ve been good so far in being consistent and making hit after hit writing for myself and other artists, from rap to R&B, and being able to make those different records.
Future
Fear is an underrated emotion. And that’s why I think it’s very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they’re two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality.
Mark Gatiss
Birkenstocks are highly underrated. They are so comfortable.
Lana Condor
Do I feel underrated? Yes. Does that bother me? No, not really.
Khris Middleton
Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he’s not spoken of enough.
Anne Rice
I think pattern makers are some of the most underrated, undervalued people in fashion. They’re the people who are sometimes the geniuses in designing clothing.
Thom Browne
I don’t know if I can call myself underrated. Maybe some people may overrate me. Who knows?
Sean Waltman
I think I’m underrated on defense. I try to use my length and feet and put pressure on players.
Tony Snell
Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.
Richard Branson
I’m definitely underrated. By far.
E-40
I just love ballads. I am obsessed with them, so I’ve written a lot of those. They just kind of touch on all the different types of emotions. Though, I think poppy, feel – good songs are underrated and not seen as artistic enough.
Megan Nicole
I’m going to be a little bit biased, but I feel Sonya Deville is very underrated.
Paige
I completely agree that a sound sleep is the best beauty product. Sound sleep, one of the most important but underrated thing, helps to make you more beautiful. I can never understand how people work so hard that they miss out on their sleep.
Shraddha Kapoor
Nutrition and sleep are two of the most underrated things, especially with younger kids.
Brad Stevens
The drummer is the backbone of the band and is the real underrated one.
Bernard Sumner
And that movie was underrated – Nuts – because it deals with a terrible subject, but It’s very well done.
Eli Wallach
I’m the most underrated, most hated, greatest of all time.
Riff Raff
Common sense is often underrated.
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
Whoever you talk to, I’m either overrated or underrated. It’s all who you to talk to.
Matt Serra