I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America. — Claude Lelouch Copy Share Image
Happy Bastille Day to someone pretentious enough to know what the fuck that is. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
“Lord Malquist and Mr Moon was the literary equivalent of the Wonderbra for intellectually pretentious students of the seventies.” — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books. — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
You can't be pretentious about what we do, because at the end of the day, movies are about entertainment, and if people… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
“What if this is a horrible mistake?" I croaked. "Oh, it'll be horrible fine, just a bunch of pretentious rich people with… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
People think making jokes about something is just going to cause trouble. But actually, not making jokes about something is a type… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
I lived in a town called New Canaan, which is just outside of Connecticut, where they are far too snobby to even… — Katherine Heigl Copy Share Image
"Just to have my kids be in the sun every day-picking avocados, going for a swim," she says. "Even for two years… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I don't do interviews at home any more because my wife doesn't like having her taste in interiors put through the mill.… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“My fear is, what is the larger effect of my book on the world and on the minds of the people who… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't want to be pretentious about, "yes, I need to move in to the more dramatic roles and express myself and… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war,… — Eugene Richards Copy Share Image
My son is actually named after Beck, the musician. We heard Beck on the radio and thought that was a good nickname… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“This book does not try to “document” any particular aspect of Indian life. To me, doing such a thing would seem a… — Waswo X. Waswo Copy Share Image
It's pretentious to say, but my art is like a little Zen story, a story with a question mark at the end.… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
Skateboarding has always been and continues to be creative and rebellious. Art and design are an extremely important part of skateboard culture,… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
To those privileged ones -- among whom we count ourselves -- the high-resounding "isms" to which their contemporaries ask them to give… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
This is going to sound pretentious, but I like comedy that addresses something I find either worrisome or interesting in my life.… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
“Big white whale is a metaphor for everything. You live for pretentious metaphors.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Great American Novel” = ”doorstop of a book, usually pretentious, written by a man.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
It sounds a bit pretentious, but I'm never really conscious of what I'm doing musically. — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden. — John Milius Copy Share Image
