I was really pretentious in a sense and was like, 'I'm going to drama school to learn the craft.' — Gustaf Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do. — James Herbert Copy Share Image
It's not my personality to brag in any way or be pretentious. It's just not my nature. — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, 'Do what I do.' I think it's a little pretentious to say,… — Kim Kardashian Copy Share Image
I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious… — Imogen Poots Copy Share Image
She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious,… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them. — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
Without sounding pretentious, it's nice to always be surrounded by creative people who inspire me and keep my levels of creativity charged. — Jaime Winstone Copy Share Image
I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious - a writer was what somebody else called you, a title… — Nguyen Viet Thang 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
Of all the everyday plants of the earth, grass is the least pretentious and the most important to mankind. It clothes the… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Stand-up is an art but since it's humor and it's funny - a lot of guys that don't think it's art are… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
It's good to get stage fright. It is necessary to be scared, otherwise you have too much confidence in yourself and you… — Jean-Benoit Dunckel 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
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
“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
They love a brown rice stir-fry, but they also love their 'Coke of the week...My daughter gravitates toward fresh fruit and raw… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
A big success can be very confusing if it comes too early in your life. When you are young, you are more… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I could draw ideas. I remember writing a paper for a seminar class. I remember writing a paper about - and this… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
...if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. ...The virtues of love as… — Leroy S Rouner Copy Share Image
I love playing all kinds of roles. I hope it doesn’t sound too pretentious, but I always feel human nature is like… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I have a twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, "Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it… — Zoey Deutch 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
