Pretentious Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

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

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

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

I never want to be pretentious.

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

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

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.

You live for pretentious metaphors.

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

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

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.

I must have been a really pretentious little girl.

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

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

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 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.