Pretentious Quotes

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I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician. — Juliana Hatfield
I don't want to sound pretentious, but you could hire a bunch of monkeys to be on a TV show, and if it's successful, then… — Scott Caan
Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat. — Sun Tzu
Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing… — Sean O'Casey
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you… — Gary Shteyngart
I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously… — Rosamund Pike
I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema. — Giovanni Ribisi
When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to… — Irvine Welsh
There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to… — Andy Milonakis
I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do. — James Herbert
Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now, to quote myself at my most… — Tom Lehrer
Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues. — James Iha
This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it. — Harrison Birtwistle
I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me. — Anne Carson
I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's… — Michelle Dockery
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said. — Laurie Anderson
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or… — Henry Watson Fowler
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 planned. It's just… — Adele
Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism,… — Tom Waits
I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people. — Zoe Kazan

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