Pretentious Quotes

I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?

We're human beings and the sun is the sun - how can it be bad for you? I don't think anything that's natural can be bad for you.

No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish.

Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!

Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician.

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 gimp mentalities.

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

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

It takes a while for a photograph to mature. That sounds really pretentious, but it takes a time for it to go from here to there.

It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you can only go so far with beer, and I've always liked that.

I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

Certainly, anybody who says, "in the eyes of God," is pretentious.

I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

It's good to get stage fright. It is necessary to be scared, otherwise you have too much confidence in yourself and you start to get pretentious and do shitty things. It's good to not be so confident in yourself.

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

I must have been a really pretentious little girl.

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

You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.

I was a really pretentious teenager.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Sometimes I might go too far with the pretentious references, which I might not do again. But when you're writing, you're sitting alone in a room so you're writing to amuse yourself as much as anybody else.

I never want to be pretentious.

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

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

If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine.

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 like pretentious films or pretentious people.

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.

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

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

I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.

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.

You live for pretentious metaphors.

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

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