Pretentious Quotes

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Part of the fun of the movie is understanding exactly why we called it Prometheus. And also, it sounds really pretentious, like Inception, so we… — Damon Lindelof
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
To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay… — Criss Jami
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks.… — Charles de Lint
What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with… — Hunter S. Thompson
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, in my opinion,… — Kesha
Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's… — Hugh Grant
Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them. — Daphne Guinness
I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in… — Jonah Hill
No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird. — Philip Seymour Hoffman
I don't want to sound too silly or pretentious about this, but, you know, I love being in Paris. I love working at Louis Vuitton.… — Marc Jacobs
I never want to be pretentious. — Kesha
What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious. — Kesha
Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians… — Denis Leary
Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker. — John Milius
When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and… — Moby
I must have been a really pretentious little girl. — Emily Mortimer
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. — David Ogilvy
I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy… — Yoko Ono
I am who I am. I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year. — Gwyneth Paltrow

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