Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.
Take your work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously
The Committee to Save America. Have you ever heard anything more smug, more pompous but - most importantly - more anti-democratic? Because it turns out that the Committee to Save America was really the Committee to Save the American Establishment.
Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
I'm a large, bombastic type of windbag.
I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!
Posterity is something I'm a big fan of because that's how you leave your legacy. Not to sound pompous, but just to be truthful.
If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.
For the most part, I don't like people who soapbox.
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.
I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous imbecility of his famous remark about when a man is tired of London he is tired of life...I can't dispute it.
Aaron Sorkin whole thing was that he didn't want the pomposity of the presidency in the West Wing. But once we cast Martin Sheen and we realised Martin's incredible accessibility, nothing felt pompous or aloof. If the show is about all the planets, let's end it with the sun.
A know-it-all is a person who knows everything except for how annoying he is.
Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of.
You want to be careful not to become just a blowhard.
You're pretty smug, Lord Ares, for a guy who runs from Cupid statues.
Conceited little mega-puppy.
Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.
