Pretentious Sounding Quotes & Sayings

To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding that way than men are. — Nicole Holofcener

I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do. — James Herbert

I'm proud of the lyrics because I take a lot of care in writing them. I try to make it so people will want to go in and get really into the lyrics. I hope there are different corners to them, with lots of levels-without sounding pretentious. — Andrew VanWyngarden

Without sounding pretentious, it's nice to always be surrounded by creative people who inspire me and keep my levels of creativity charged. — Jaime Winstone

Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book. — Jon Ronson

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

Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit ... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues. — James Iha

When you approach it, and I hate sounding like the pretentious actor, but yeah, I think you have to find things within the character that are likeable, or at least human, and not to go at it with any sort of predetermined notions as to what that character is. — Steve Carell