Pretentious Quotes · Page 3

I basically love anything that comes in a hot dog bun... except hot dogs.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

I must have been a really pretentious little girl.

— Emily Mortimer

I meditate - very pretentious - and I try to read as much as I can and swim at the Y.

— Lucas Hedges

“I'm a pretentious faggot with a bundle of paper.”

— Yer Mum

I was really pretentious in a sense and was like, 'I'm going to drama school to learn the craft.'

— Gustaf Skarsgard

“I am a poet writing frenetic free verse I am pretentious”

— Michael H. Hanson

It's not my personality to brag in any way or be pretentious. It's just not my nature.

— Allan Holdsworth

I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

— James Herbert

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

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

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

— David Ogilvy

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

— Banksy

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

— Goldwin Smith

In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past,…

— Gaston Bachelard

It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or…

— Karin Slaughter

I feel like this thing [that] we're rocking back and forth like we're stuck in a snow bank and we all sort…

— Justin Vernon

In the Lamborghini I have to avoid certain roads because of pot holes, and there's nowhere to put my drink, no cup…

— Danica Patrick

You can write a song about a girl or you can write a song about walking down the shops, and it's fine.…

— Matt Corby

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

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

I have no rules. For me, it's a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and…

— David Cronenberg

Music is one of my big interests - I once had a rather fanciful ambition to be a singer - and of…

— Tim Crane

The Victorians have been immoderately praised, and immoderately blamed, and surely it is time we formed some reasonable picture of them? There…

— Robertson Davies

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

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

— Marianne Moore

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

— Fantastic Negrito

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

— Anonymous

“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

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

— Jimmy Breslin