Underrated Quotes

• People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.

  Jennifer Aniston

  People, Looks, Comedy

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• All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

  Francois Truffaut

  Lying, Misunderstood, Directors

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• Mediocrity is underrated.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Mediocrity

  "Mary-Louise Parker: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2010.

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• 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

  Home, Thinking, Location

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• I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

  Rick Springfield

  Thinking, Musician, Fans

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• I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Thinking, Stories

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• I'm way bigger than people think I am. I'm way bigger. I've been underrated all my life, and that's fine. I have privacy. I can walk the street without being hassled. I can be a regular guy. The price to give that up is so horrible. When you become a part of the hysteria - it's not completely in my hands - you have to hide.

  Rutger Hauer

  Thinking, Hands, Hysteria

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• South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated.

  Honor Blackman

  Beautiful, Country, Canada

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• The Loved One has been the most underrated film I've worked on.

  Terry Southern

  Film, Loved Ones, Has Beens

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• Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Winter, Player, World

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• And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.

  Eli Wallach

  Nuts, Done, Terrible

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• 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

  Thinking, Moments, Enough

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• 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

  Thinking, Hollywood, Actors

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• 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

  Football, Couple, Thinking

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• I think Robitussin is way underrated.

  Colin Hanks

  Thinking, Way

  "Actor Colin Hanks Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 4, 2011.

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• I don't play the lottery. I don't care what my horoscope says. I think most things about the world could be improved if people thought more about what they're doing. When someone gets upset with their computer, I tend to side with the computer. I think art is overrated, and bridges are underrated. In fact, I don't understand why bridges aren't art. It seems to me they're penalized for having a use. If I make a bridge that ends in midair, that's a sculpture. But put it between two landmasses and let it ferry two hundred thousand cars per day and it's infrastructure. That makes no sense.

  Max Barry

  Art, Thinking, Bridges

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• 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

  Fun, Successful, Important

  "The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership". Book by Richard Branson, www.businessinsider.com. 2014.

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• Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

  Robin Hobb

  Mean, Boredom, Trying

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• In medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazard as abortion.

  Warren Hern

  Practice, Abortion, Littles

  "Abortion Practice". Book by Warren Hern, 1984.

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• Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.

  Eli Roth

  Directors, Knows, Gore

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• I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but up.

  Pete du Pont

  Motivational, Opportunity, Optimism

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• My view of the internet is that it is way overrated in what it’s done to date but considerably underrated in what it will do.

  Tyler Cowen

  Views, Done, Way

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• Conciseness is underrated

  Sarah Dessen

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.189, Penguin

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• The most overrated underrated player in baseball.

  Lawrence Ritter

  Baseball, Player, Overrated

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• I'm a 'what if' person. I have always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience. I have taken blows. I have had high moments. But I don't think the blows have ever hardened me. My enthusiasms are still big.

  Kevin Costner

  Positive, Taken, Blow

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