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
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 do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema. — Giovanni Ribisi Copy Share Image
As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul…it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it… — Afrojack Copy Share Image
“At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Artful without being pretentious, well-made without being staid, Trey Moody's investigations of our weird and ordinary world are a little off, by… — Graham Foust 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
Working with composers often is a really frustrating experience because you speak a different language and, oftentimes, they take two or three… — Peter Berg 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
“He'll be a minister in Spain some day, or, at the very least, ambassador to Washington, he's exactly the kind of pretentious… — Javier Marias Copy Share Image
“Him,” he points. “With the blue Chucks.” “Unacceptable.” “Pourquoi?” “He’s barn owl-y.” “Fine. Inkblot T-Shirt?” “Pretentious.” “So? I love pretentious people!” “Why?”… — J.C. Lillis Copy Share Image
“The intellectually insecure drop the word “pretentious” to shut down a conversation they don’t understand, when simply saying “I don’t know” or… — Dan Fox 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
“You shouldn't pay attention to things that don't grab your attention. If you do, you're being a pretentious douchebag.” — Paul Jarvis Copy Share Image
My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I'm going to be a… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
It takes a while for a photograph to mature. That sounds really pretentious, but it takes a time for it to go… — Harry Benson Copy Share Image
She's not pretentious at all. I love that about her. I mean, she's this giant icon, but then she's just this little… — Chad Michaels Copy Share Image
A worldly actor is a better actor. It sounds pretentious, but I think having these experiences can translate back into your work. — Nick Robinson Copy Share Image
Its quite pretentious, really, isnt it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a… — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
Fashion is a little bit pretentious. Whereas I feel like movies are just fun. That's just my perspective, based off my experiences,… — Julia Fox Copy Share Image
When I lose direction, it becomes very hard to write. I actually get a physical pain, as if my subconscious knows better.… — George Benjamin Copy Share Image
This is going to sound pretentious, but I like comedy that addresses something I find either worrisome or interesting in my life. — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
“Hey, people who proudly declare: "I don't even own a TV!" We're not impressed. We think you're pretentious and/or boring.” — Caprice Crane @capricecrane Copy Share Image
It's a challenge to play pretentious people, I think. You can't have the audience hating her. You have to see moments where… — Emily Blunt Copy Share Image
A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and… — Merrill Markoe Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched… — Moby Copy Share Image
I kind of want to take the writer down a peg. I think there are a lot of pretentious writers in this… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
I love driving at Monaco but the rest of it, well, I can absolutely take it or leave it. It's extremely pretentious… — Mark Webber Copy Share Image
I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope,… — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins Copy Share Image
I can't see any reason why a film shouldn't be stylized and visually beautiful. I don't think a beautiful set is pretentious. — Alain Resnais Copy Share Image
“I'm tired of 'pretentious' just being used as an excuse to dismiss anything that fucking expects you to have a brain.” — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
It's so pretentious, but I believe that with comedy, if you have a good story, 90% of it is casting. Once you… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
I did this movie, Predestination, and it's one of my favorite movies I've ever made, because sci-fi really lets you talk about… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
I can talk about film theory forever and it may sound pretentious or something, but really it's just that I'm fascinated by… — John Hyams Copy Share Image
There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of… — Andy Milonakis Copy Share Image
Alan Rickman, who was mentored me a lot. He was very keen to offer his opinions on stuff. Not in a pretentious… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
