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 I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.

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.

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.

I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.

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 was a really pretentious teenager.

I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.