Quotes About Superficiality

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.

We're the country of movie stars because the stars, like ourselves, represent a kind of extended infantilism, beauties waiting for the big chance.

People just never saw me beyond my looks. Being good looking sometimes works against you in Bollywood.

The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

Somebody will come on TV singing, and you're like, 'Oh my God! I mean, they suck! You know, who signed them?' Well, it's just because she's good lookin', or it's because he's takin' his shirt off and he's muscley or something, or else he wouldn't have gotten his chance.

A lot of these girls have a goal in life to find a rich guy. I can smell it from a mile away. They won't catch me! I know what they look like. They come with their little Kelly bag and their Rolex and the Louboutin shoes that are slightly too sexy. Shove off! Do you think I'm going to be the next sucker here?

There is superficiality to Hollywood, and yes, it is charming. Of course there is sunshine, but there is also a dark side. It's a difficult place if you don't know people, and if you can't drive, you will find it lonely. You have to create your own bubble.

People failed to realize that when you're living such a hyper, super reality of a life, where you're just doing shows and you're on TV and you're talking to this magazine, that doesn't bode well for trying to talk about everyday stuff that hopefully you'll connect with people on.

Social media is an advertisement for the superficial extroverted self.

Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.

It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they?

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

American pop culture is perpetually in adolescent mode. The notions of what it takes to be a man, as depicted in pop culture, are very superficial, one-dimensional, and adolescent.

I want people to know me for my singing. I've never been searching for a label of being a fashion plate or a top model. That's a thing that's very short-lived, and it's dealing with a superficial level of this which doesn't really appeal to me.

It's ridiculous that people would judge my songs based on what I wore, but that's how it is... superficial. I don't really care, though - I am confident in the quality of my own work.

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

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.

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

Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information.

To have an opinion about somebody you've never met before is pretty superficial.

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

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

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