Pretentious Quotes · Page 5

So many freaking judgmental people in the world, you end up becoming pretentious.

— Anonymous

I like being photographed without glasses. I don't want to be pretentious.

— Fantastic Negrito

“Being with her was like being backstage during an amateurish, ridiculous play.”

— Nathanael West

The older I got, the less pretentious I got in my art tastes and work.

— Susanna Fogel

Instead of sounding pretentious, phony, or repetitive, I'd rather not speak.

— Sushant Singh Rajput

“A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.”

— Christy Leigh Stewart

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the…

— Goldwin Smith

There are good and bad movies, and long ones, and pretentious ones, and fun ones, and it's kind of healthy not just…

— Susanne Bier

Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or…

— Adele

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

— Richard Thompson

I don't want to sound pretentious, but you could hire a bunch of monkeys to be on a TV show, and if…

— Scott Caan

“The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak.”

— Banksy

Never use jargon words like 'reconceptualize', 'demassification', 'attitudinally', 'judgmentally'. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.

— David Ogilvy

Early on, I said to myself that I would like to write a kind of moral and spiritual history of a place.…

— Horton Foote

It's not like changing one word with my lyrics is going to make them more intelligible or relatable. I was always very…

— Paul Banks

Artful without being pretentious, well-made without being staid, Trey Moody's investigations of our weird and ordinary world are a little off, by…

— Graham Foust

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop…

— Pete Townshend

Do not be afraid of simplicity. If you have a cold chicken for supper, why cover it with a tasteless white sauce…

— Marcel Boulestin

I felt at some point that I had nothing to lose, and [laughs] maybe I was wrong. I think, you know, there's…

— Billy Collins

I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts…

— Damon Lindelof

If we wanted to make it the way I imagined I knew that we would have to wake up earlier and start…

— Luc Besson

I suppose there is something appealing about a word that everyone uses with absolute confidence but on whose exact meaning no two…

— Michael Chabon

I've always been fond of the idea expressed in Buddhist art, that there are certain objects that, just by seeing them, can…

— Alex Grey

Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give…

— Henry Watson Fowler

I think some people have a different idea of what the band Young the Giant is. We're normal guys. We're down to…

— Sameer Gadhia

I think that live music is really pretentious - all of it. I hate festivals and live shows, because as soon as…

— Willis Earl Beal

When critics or people judge, I think it's harder to make a commercial, pop movie than it is to make a pretentious…

— Brett Ratner

It's really a trade-off: you're always having to decide whether you're going to say the more ambitious thing, and lose a little…

— Elif Batuman

A word about 'plain English.' The phrase certainly shouldn't connote drab and dreary language. Actually, plain English is typically quite interesting to…

— Bryan A. Garner

Contrary to what you may have heard from Henry Rollins or/and Ian MacKaye and/or anyone else who joined a band after working…

— Chuck Klosterman

It sounds very pretentious, but I don't lie. It's too uncomfortable. A lot of people think because you're an actor that makes…

— Martin Shaw

“American religion is conspicuous for its messianically pretentious energy, its embarassingly banal prose, and its impatiently hustling ambition.”

— Eugene Peterson

If talking about arts means being pretentious, a bit like being a wine critic, then I don't feel comfy with that. You…

— Mary Beard

We're human beings and the sun is the sun-how can it be bad for you? I don't think anything that's natural can…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.

— Matthew Specktor

If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine.

— Anonymous

There are some people I've met and it's stressful just speaking to them, because they're really pretentious and I don't know how…

— Frankie Cosmos

In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever.

— Rex Reed

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

— Roger Deakins

She has pretentious conversations about art house films. I have pretentious conversations about porno clips. We were doomed from the start …

— Rudy Espinoza