It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.

- Graham Norton

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

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

We're not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, that's just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.

- Kari Matchett

There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often.

- Kelly Reilly

If you throw money around like confetti, it just becomes shallow and meaningless.

- John Caudwell

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

- Joni Mitchell

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

- John Milton

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

- Hank Azaria

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.

- George Wendt

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

- Guru Nanak

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

- Garrison Keillor

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

- Ewan McGregor

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

- Dennis Miller

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.

- Charles Lyell

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

- Chelsea Handler

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.

- Brooke Burns

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

- Barbara Walters