Underneath Quotes

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.

In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.

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

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

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

Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

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.

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

As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.

Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.

In St. Louis, some people were hurt seriously when some fans got on top of a roof that was where other fans were underneath it, at a park somewhere, and it collapsed.

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

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

I think hidden underneath a lot of teachers are very sexy women.

Anyway, so what he did was, he spread sheets for 100 yards and underneath them he'd put things so there were bumps and different levels and on top he'd put little bushes and if you didn't look to close, it looked like snow!

Fear and hope are alike underneath.

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.

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?

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.

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.

In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock.

But, apart from that, there was very little on underneath the suit.

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

I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests.

Underneath all the skin, we're all the same.

Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was.

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

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.

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.