Ostentatious Quotes

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

There are lots of people who are red-carpet types, but that's not me.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

I don't like showboating. I was never a fan of showing off.

Rich Gang is a rich look.

Yellow journalism is defined by prominent headlines that screamed excitement, often about comparatively unimportant news; a lavish use of pictures, many of them without significance; faked interviews and stories; a Sunday supplement and color comics; and a more or less ostentatious sympathy with the 'underdog,' with campaigns against abuses suffered by the common people.

I love crazy, gaudy bling.

Show-offy, I could sometimes be accused of.

Extravagant is, I think, the word we all thought when we met ... A lot of money went into that [The Grand Tour's ]. I just thought it would be a good idea to have a bridge from the old to the new and that was a way of saying 'Right, well now look where we are.'

You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight.

The more New Yorkers like something, the more disgusted they are. "The kitchen was all Sub-Zero: I want to kill myself. The building has a playroom that makes you want to break your own jaw with a golf club. I can't take it.

It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.

I think it's despicable to be on display and a fashion showoff.

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

The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.

I like things that are over the top and subtle at the same time.

Fashion is so over the top.

Wow. I am really pretentious.

An inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.

You can put on as many airs as you want, but in the end, that dress is the same as you: an old, cheap design dressed up to look like its worth more than it is.

You know, my uncle wore a lot of jewelry, a lot of gold chains.

... an egotistical chameleon whose predominant color is pink.

Presley sounded like Jayne Mansfield looked - blowsy and loud and low.

There isn't any one material that's mine. It all depends on the context. For example, I did a house that had the most exquisite marble applications. That sounds ostentatious, but it wasn't, given the context. The color white I subscribe to extensively. I love thinking about color, but I often go with white.