Pretentious Quotes

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

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 like a soap written by a poet.

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

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.

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.

It's quite pretentious, really, isn't 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.

Wow. I am really pretentious.

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

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

I love driving at Monaco but the rest of it, well, I can absolutely take it or leave it. It's extremely pretentious and really not my cup of tea.

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 sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!

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

In the Lamborghini I have to avoid certain roads because of pot holes, and there's nowhere to put my drink, no cup holder. And I'm not going to lie, it looks pretentious. I used to think it was cool to, like, drive it to dinner. Now? Like I really need to be looked at any more.

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

A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip.

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

I just love real characters, they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.

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 an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.

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

Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book.

I never want to be pretentious.

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

After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected.

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious.

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

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.

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.