Pretentious Quotations

I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.

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

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

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

I must have been a really pretentious little girl.

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

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.

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

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

I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

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

Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician.

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

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

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

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

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

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

You live for pretentious metaphors.

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.

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

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

I never want to be pretentious.

You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.

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

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

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

I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.

I was a really pretentious teenager,

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.