Pretentious Quotes · Page 4

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

— Anton Szandor LaVey

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

— Oscar Levant

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

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

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

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 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

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

I've never been what they call a 'pure gallerist.' I find that somewhat pretentious, honestly - I'm an art dealer. I like…

— Larry Gagosian

Part of the fun of the movie is understanding exactly why we called it Prometheus. And also, it sounds really pretentious, like…

— Damon Lindelof

“Admit it or not, you care about what others think about you. People who declare they don't are more likely pretentious. You…

— Grace Scott

The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern…

— Banksy

I was a pretentious teenager, so of course I had, you know, 'Raging Bull' posters and all of that. 'Raging Bull' is…

— Adam Scott

I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take…

— Rosamund Pike

But you need to strive to try and communicate and try and change things in a similar way. And then people can…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

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

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

“Ed began explaining this Yo La Tengo thing, how he was listening to a record of theirs, on vinyl he emphasized, and…

— Catherine Lacey

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

This is going to sound pretentious, but I like comedy that addresses something I find either worrisome or interesting in my life.…

— Zach Woods

“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

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

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— David Ogilvy

I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.

— Zoe Kazan

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

— Lasse Hallstrom

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

— Sue Townsend

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

— Rick Warren

No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I hope I never get to point where I'm not real, where I'm pretentious.

— Sara Evans