Pretentious Quotes

I'm not the kind of actor who runs around and insists on being called Stravinsky by everybody, and my family has to call me Igor. I'm not that kind of actor. I think that's pretentious.

It's so pretentious, but I believe that with comedy, if you have a good story, 90% of it is casting. Once you get the guys and gals in there, it's pretty easy to make a funny movie.

Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul....it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.

Strip is the power. I'm ready to strip... I think everyone is. In that I'm saying I think everyone is ready to take off masks and pretentious costumes that don't represent who they truly are.

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 ideas in a way that's not pretentious.

Whenever there remains any support for the ego within, even if it be only an atom's weight, then you are pretentious and have a devil who leads you astray.

I do consider myself to be something of a pretentious wanker.

I feel like so many people get into that place where creating for someone else is selling out and it is so not about that. It is a stupid, kind of pretentious way of thinking.

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

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 so gutsy.

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 have some deep meaning.

I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose is more open, popular.

The same people that always think I'm pretentious will think I'm pretentious, and the people who relate to me will continue to relate to me.

I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.

The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality.

I must have been a really pretentious little girl.

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 to talk to them without being pretentious back.

Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.

When I lose direction, it becomes very hard to write. I actually get a physical pain, as if my subconscious knows better. That may sound mystical and pretentious, but it's true.

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has been to elevate that form. Maybe that sounds pretentious!

Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called 'pretentious' by jealous talents. But it ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.

I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

I often wonder, Is it worth waiting only for things you think are going to be truly great, or is that a pretentious attitude to take?

Its quite pretentious, really, isnt it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.

You live for pretentious metaphors.

You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.

I can talk about film theory forever and it may sound pretentious or something, but really it's just that I'm fascinated by it.

Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

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

What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious.

I never want to be pretentious.

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, should be fun.

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

Alan Rickman, who was mentored me a lot. He was very keen to offer his opinions on stuff. Not in a pretentious way. Not in a patronizing way.

My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.

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 only listened to obscure music.

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

I decided to dub the room with the good chairs my lutery. Or perhaps my performatory. I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious.

I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.

I was a really pretentious teenager.

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

I like to carry around extremely pretentious books, and I don't know if I can read them, but if I hold them near me, it imbues me with a sense of powerful intelligence.

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 everything's perfect and everybody's happy.

Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward.

I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.