People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America. — Claude Lelouch Copy Share Image
Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
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 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 just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious. I'm fighting this war against all that because pop music,… — Kesha Copy Share Image
I'll never forget it. I was starting to hike up the red rocks, and honestly, it was as if I heard the… — Gwyneth Paltrow 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
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 Copy Share Image
I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
This may sound pretentious, but I don't like being thought of as 'the Metal Gear guy.' There's a lot more I can… — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
I'm proud of the lyrics because I take a lot of care in writing them. I try to make it so people… — Andrew VanWyngarden Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't want to get pretentious, but there's an art to doing sitcoms; you have to make it work in that format. — Sean Maguire Copy Share Image
I've been accused of being pretentious and insufferable, and I don't really know what I can say about that. I never got… — Mara Wilson 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
Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I suppose there is something appealing about a word that everyone uses with absolute confidence but on whose exact meaning no two… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I hate the whole group of artists who are so hermetic and completely indecipherable on some level and they're all proud of… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
Film is a narrative format. Some fashion films try to retain some of the poetic mystery, but most of the time they… — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
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