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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 was a really pretentious teenager. — Rebecca Hall

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

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

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

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. — Mark Webber

The worst thing for a filmmaker is for a film to be labeled as pretentious or heavy-handed. — John Curran

True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism. — Joyce Rachelle

You're not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through you like cellophane. — Rebecca McNutt

This may sound pretentious, but I don't like being thought of as 'the Metal Gear guy.' There's a lot more I can do. — Hideo Kojima

A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious. — Christy Leigh Stewart

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

For a pretentious Master vampire, Darth Sullivan was pretty dreamy. — Chloe Neill

If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself. — Rainer Maria Rilke

As the twig is bent the bough is shaped, that was another old saying, and once a pretentious asshole, always a pretentious asshole. — Stephen King

I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Pretentious and over-active semicolons have reached epidemic proportions in the world of academe, where they are used to gloss over imprecise thought. — Lynne Truss

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

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

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

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! — David Eddings

Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making
devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or
pompous. — David Foster Wallace

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

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

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

American religion is conspicuous for its messianically pretentious energy, its embarassingly banal prose, and its impatiently hustling ambition. — Eugene H. Peterson

In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever. — Rex Reed

Lugubrious and pretentious at the same time. — Lauren Groff

The whole quantum setup ends up being embarrassing in the special way something pretentious is embarrassing when it's also wrong. — David Foster Wallace

I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right. — Brian May

A worldly actor is a better actor. It sounds pretentious, but I think having these experiences can translate back into your work. — Nick Robinson

You shouldn't pay attention to things that don't grab your attention. If you do, you're being a pretentious douchebag. — Paul Jarvis

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? — Jason Schwartzman

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

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 — Gwyneth Paltrow

The prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and nothing more pretentious, are what I mean by the law. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious. — Don Roff

Being with her was like being backstage during an amateurish, ridiculous play. — Nathanael West

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge. — Roger Deakins

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

You lying liar," Vaan said, "who lies to me with lies. Nobody actually likes Shakespeare! They just pretend to sound more cultural and pretentious. — A.D. Truax

I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example. — Tom Lehrer

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

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker. — John Milius

All right, all right for you, you pretentious kneecap! How would you like a punch in the eye? — Peter S. Beagle

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

Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat. — Sun Tzu

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 is not. — Yoko Ono

I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself. — Wale

Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician. — Anton Szandor LaVey

I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole. — Sue Townsend

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

It's bad enough when people I know fuck with my life, but when pretentious bass players interfere with my destiny, then I really get pissed. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

Who names themselves 'The Situation?' I do not take myself seriously like that - not in the least bit - that would be so pretentious. — Isaiah Mustafa

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

Every ironist has in mind a pretentious reader, mirror of himself. — Paul Valery

I read my email aloud to hear how it sounded, then I read it again in a British accent to make sure it didn't come across as pretentious. — Jerry Mahoney

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. — John Hyams

Never use jargon words like 'reconceptualize', 'demassification', 'attitudinally', 'judgmentally'. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass. — David Ogilvy

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

The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. — Banksy

Every pretentious, made up moment of my life will be yours. Welcome, follower! — Tarryn Fisher

Please don't tell me you're one of those pretentious readers who judge people by the books they like. He — Colleen Hoover

Stop thinking about your pretentious boss and his damn tattoos. — Skye Callahan

Pretentious."
"So? I love pretentious people!"
"Why?"
"They try so hard to be interesting, you don't have to do any work. — J.C. Lillis

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. — David Ogilvy

My first show was 'No Exit.' You couldn't find a more pretentious beginning, but it also instilled some sense of quality. — Chris Eigeman

A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life. — Rick Warren

I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious. — Pamela Hanson

I am a poet
writing frenetic free verse
I am pretentious — Michael H. Hanson

Karma: The delusion of the pretentious; who think the Universe should act as their debt collector. — Steve Maraboli

First off, what the hell kind of name is that?
Wow, her parents were pretentious naming their daughter Temperance!
What the actual fuck? — Joanne McClean

Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious? — R. A. Schwaller De Lubicz

I remember growing up, saying you're an artist it sounds pretentious but now it's one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself. — Marilyn Manson

Pretentious quotations [are] the surest road to tedium. — Henry Watson Fowler

I must have been a really pretentious little girl. — Emily Mortimer

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

Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them. — Daphne Guinness

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

You know, Granna, going around saying how you don't watch TV... It's not even pretentious anymore... it's just plain out of it. — Donald Margulies

Yes, of course we were pretentious
what else is youth for? — Julian Barnes

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

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

And he was pretentious: — John Green

So apparently all homeschooled kids spoke like pretentious liberal arts college students. — Koren Zailckas

I don't want to get pretentious, but there's an art to doing sitcoms; you have to make it work in that format. — Sean Maguire

It's the work itself that's important to me.' Miranda is aware of how pretentious this sounds, but is it still pretentious if it's true? — Emily St. John Mandel

I never want to be pretentious. — Kesha

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

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

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

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. — Justin Timberlake

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

No matter who you are, this contraction is always preferred to the choppy and pretentious alternative: am I not. — Naveed Saleh

Lord Malquist and Mr Moon was the literary equivalent of the Wonderbra for intellectually pretentious students of the seventies. — Linda Grant

I will take all my rights! Can you deliver them to my house? — Ljupka Cvetanova

Writing to impress others is the surest path to pretentious mediocrity. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory. — Ira Glass

I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties. — Rachel Zoe

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