Pretentious Quotes · Page 4

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

— John Milius

If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.

— Karl Lagerfeld

It felt like a pretentious fantasy to say, 'I want to be an actress.'

— Pom Klementieff

The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

— David Ogilvy

[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious.

— Lasse Hallstrom

I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.

— Zoe Kazan

I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole.

— Sue Townsend

No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious.

— Merrill Markoe

I'm not the kind of actor who runs around and insists on being called Stravinsky by everybody, and my family has to…

— Mads Mikkelsen

I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it's not…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses…

— Carine Roitfeld

I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit…

— Yoko Ono

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read.…

— David Eddings

I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.

— Tom Lehrer

You come across [online comments] about yourself and about your friends, and it's a very dehumanizing thing,It's almost like how, in war,…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious…

— Ben Gibbard

If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think…

— Yael Naim

When you approach it, and I hate sounding like the pretentious actor, but yeah, I think you have to find things within…

— Steve Carell

Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go…

— Jon Ronson

Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious…

— Charlotte Rampling

The goal with my music is to maintain a certain honesty and quality. That sounds pretty pretentious as if I'm trying to…

— Milo

“There occurred within a causal radius of Brandon Station one of those infinitesimal ripples in the creative silence of the First Cause.…

— John Cowper Powys

Independent means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director's voice is extremely present. It's…

— Alexander Payne

Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and…

— Arthur Lynch

When I come to a new city is I combine: I say, well, it's like Barcelona and Edinburgh, though I can't imagine…

— William Gibson

To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too…

— Criss Jami

We had similar interests with Derek Rowan and Paul Hewson; it sounds really pretentious at 12, 13 year old kids were like…

— Gavin Friday

“He told me things about himself that should have made him sound urbane but did the opposite. He told me, for example,…

— Olivia Sudjic

I think whatever we've done as a band at The Clientele, we've done because it's so natural. Our "old" sound isn't really…

— Alasdair MacLean

A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

— Rick Warren

Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!

— Jimmy Breslin

Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

— Oscar Levant

I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.

— Nate Lowman

I am who I am. I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat.

— Sun Tzu