Quotes About Pretentious

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

She did like reading, and especially the reading of poetry, — though even in this she was false and pretentious, skipping, pretending to have read, lying about books, and making up her market of literature for outside admiration at the easiest possible cost of trouble

To be "intellectual" or "artistic" or, in their own word, to be "highbrow," is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.

The smaller the understanding of the situation, the more pretentious the form of expression.

But in our dislike of the individual do not let us mistake the diagnosis of his disease. He suffers not from ignorance but from stupidity. Give him learning and you make him not wise, but only more pretentious in his folly.

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

It's so hard to be sincere without sounding pretentious.... I mean, what are you supposed to do if you really happen to feel like you've swallowed the universe? Not say so?

There are two words I hate and despise and don't want to hear: red carpet and iconic.

that bumptious, prosing piece of self-consequence that never crossed anything but a slug in his life!

I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.

I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.

I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.

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

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

You can't be pretentious about what we do, because at the end of the day, movies are about entertainment, and if people get 10 dollars' worth, then that's okay.

Titles always sound so pretentious, and when I see a comedian, I just want the person to take flight, not stick to one topic or subject.

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.

Beg for Love. Consider this burning, and those who burn, as gifts from the Friend. Nothing to learn. Too much has already been said. When you read a single page from the silent book of your heart, you will laugh at all this chattering, all this pretentious learning.

Can't recognize the organization of a novel? Assume there isn't one. Baffled by arcana — i.e., stuff you don't already know? Call the author pretentious. Find a book hard-going? Assume the author is deliberately torturing you.

The dominant theories of elite art and criticism in the 20th century grew out of a militant denial of human nature. One legacy is ugly, baffling, and insulting art. The other is pretentious and unintelligible scholarship. And they're surprised that people are staying away in droves?

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

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

I have a horrible capacity to be unctuous to people I want to impress.

The worst date I've been on was in L.A. with this guy I didn't want to be on a date with - he was just trying to take me to all these places and impress me but it was so cheesy.