Top Pretentious Quotes
Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.
Hugh Grant
I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
Justin Timberlake
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
David Ogilvy
I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
Sadie Frost
I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.
John Milius
John Milius 
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Rob Corddry 
Hugh Grant 
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Rosamund Pike 
Justin Timberlake 
Goldwin Smith 
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Pete Townshend All Pretentious Quotes
Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.
Hugh Grant 
60% of people like this quote
I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
Justin Timberlake
59% of people like this quote
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
David Ogilvy
59% of people like this quote
I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
Sadie Frost
57% of people like this quote
I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.
John Milius
56% of people like this quote
I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
Lou Reed
54% of people like this quote
I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.
Pete Townshend
54% of people like this quote
Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.
Richard Thompson
53% of people like this quote
When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
Irvine Welsh
53% of people like this quote
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
Laurie Anderson
52% of people like this quote