Quotes About Being Pretentious

#1. 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.

Frankie Cosmos

#2. People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.

Afrojack

#3. Artful without being pretentious, well-made without being staid, Trey Moody's investigations of our weird and ordinary world are a little off, by which I mean that they're onto something. Read 'em and be crept into.

Graham Foust

#4. I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.

Brian K. Vaughan

#5. If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas.

Francis Ford Coppola

#6. The second greatest pleasure after love is talking about it.

Louise Labe

#7. I'm not the kind of actor who runs around and insists on being called Stravinsky by everybody, and my family has to call me Igor. I'm not that kind of actor. I think that's pretentious.

Mads Mikkelsen

#8. Harvard Law provided an opportunity to learn from a faculty that had shaped the laws of our country and helped to change the world around us. It also offered an opportunity to study with the brightest students and to test myself against the best.

Kenneth Chenault

#9. It kind of sounds pretentious, but a film I find deeply romantic is 'Buffalo '66,' which is a film by Vincent Gallo. It's about how you break down all those barriers and expose yourself and open yourself up to ultimately being hurt.

Jim Sturgess

#10. I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

Gale Sayers

#11. Clarissa," he said, "here with the vampire, I see. When things have settled a bit, we really must discuss you choice in pets..

Cassandra Clare

#12. Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, the higher your profile, the more castable you are in TV dramas.

Cherie Lunghi

#13. There are good and bad movies, and long ones, and pretentious ones, and fun ones, and it's kind of healthy not just being able to switch off after ten minutes, but have patience.

Susanne Bier

#14. 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

#15. I myself prefer being called Cassie. It's so much friendlier and less pretentious than Cassandra, don't you think? ... I think both fit you right fine. One is elegant and graceful, the other fun and lively.

Karen Witemeyer

#16. I don't want to sound too silly or pretentious about this, but, you know, I love being in Paris. I love working at Louis Vuitton. I love fashion. That's why I do it. No one's forcing me to do this. And nobody forces anyone to buy it. It's a real love affair.

Marc Jacobs

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

Merrill Markoe

#18. I was never afraid of getting old. I remember being young and thinking, Wow, I can't wait until I'm older because I feel like everything is going to happen then. I don't want to sound pretentious or anything, but I'm always one of the first ones to say, "Let's try that."

Mario Sorrenti

#19. Being with her was like being backstage during an amateurish, ridiculous play.

Nathanael West

#20. I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.

Damon Lindelof

#21. You can never study Franklin Delano Roosevelt too much.

Newt Gingrich

#22. She carried herself like a dishonored queen. Even the way she held her head at an angle as she considered the buildings around us seemed watched and pretentious, and I thought about my mother saying there was something toxic about being very beautiful. It must be terrible to be a woman.

Rufi Thorpe

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

Lasse Hallstrom

#24. The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

Criss Jami

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

Paul Jarvis

#26. Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.

Tom Waits

#27. I really gravitate to the comedy of tonal contrasts. I hope that doesn't sound insufferably pretentious. What I mean is people having reactions to things that seem inappropriate, or being happy in an apparently unhappy situation.

Matt Nix

#28. The whole quantum setup ends up being embarrassing in the special way something pretentious is embarrassing when it's also wrong.

David Foster Wallace