Pretentious Quotes · Page 5

“Great American Novel” = ”doorstop of a book, usually pretentious, written by a man.”

— Lionel Shriver

“True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism.”

— Joyce Rachelle

I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

— Wale

It sounds a bit pretentious, but I'm never really conscious of what I'm doing musically.

— Jon Hopkins

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

— John Milius

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

— John Milius

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

I've never done a pretentious show; it's always had a live feeling, the kind of thing that comes across when you don't…

— Soupy Sales

Some instances of help offered by others at crucial moments are merely pretentious or simply insincere.

— Chandrababu VS

“Pretentious." "So? I love pretentious people!" "Why?" "They try so hard to be interesting, you don't have to do any work.”

— J.C. Lillis

“Lord Malquist and Mr Moon was the literary equivalent of the Wonderbra for intellectually pretentious students of the seventies.”

— Linda Grant

I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious - a writer was what somebody else called you, a title…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They…

— Brian May

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

That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the…

— Nicole Kidman

...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war,…

— Eugene Richards

I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious…

— Ben Gibbard

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

I don't want to be pretentious about, "yes, I need to move in to the more dramatic roles and express myself and…

— Steve Carell

If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going…

— Francis Ford Coppola

Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious…

— Charlotte Rampling

We had similar interests with Derek Rowan and Paul Hewson; it sounds really pretentious at 12, 13 year old kids were like…

— Gavin Friday

Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and…

— Arthur Lynch

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

I think whatever we've done as a band at The Clientele, we've done because it's so natural. Our "old" sound isn't really…

— Alasdair MacLean

“He told me things about himself that should have made him sound urbane but did the opposite. He told me, for example,…

— Olivia Sudjic

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

“This book does not try to “document” any particular aspect of Indian life. To me, doing such a thing would seem a…

— Waswo X. Waswo

It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There…

— Camille Paglia

You can't be pretentious about what we do, because at the end of the day, movies are about entertainment, and if people…

— Jason Statham

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

— Rainn Wilson

Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the…

— Alberto Manguel

The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who…

— Chuck Klosterman

“What if this is a horrible mistake?" I croaked. "Oh, it'll be horrible fine, just a bunch of pretentious rich people with…

— Ruta Sepetys

I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone…

— Michelle Dockery

People think making jokes about something is just going to cause trouble. But actually, not making jokes about something is a type…

— David Baddiel

I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it's not…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

I'm not the kind of actor who runs around and insists on being called Stravinsky by everybody, and my family has to…

— Mads Mikkelsen

No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious.

— Merrill Markoe