I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort.
You live for pretentious metaphors.
When I say I want to become a legend, some people say it's pretentious. For me, it's a challenge. My desire, a dream. I'm not saying I'll get there, but it's what I want.
Certainly, anybody who says, "in the eyes of God," is pretentious.
I used to be a pretentious little jerk, running around saying 'I'm going to be an awktor.'
I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.
I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike 'Aida,' parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges.
You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.
He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.
...Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she had always needed the most.
A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.
The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: he merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull.
I'm secretly very stuffy.
If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.
Show-offy, I could sometimes be accused of.
If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.
One of the more pretentious political self-descriptions is 'Libertarian.' People think it puts them above the fray. It sounds fashionable, and to the uninitiated, faintly dangerous. Actually, it's just one more bullshit political philosophy.
I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.
About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been used to wrap up a few tea leaves from which tea had already been made three times.
Most people think I'm immodest.
In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
I don't like living around too many fancy-pantsy folks. That ain't my thing. I'm not into phony people.
I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.
A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
It takes a lot of effort to look this mediocre.
