David O. Russell
David O. Russell

I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.

David Ogilvy
David Ogilvy

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

Denis Leary
Denis Leary

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

Dennis DeYoung
Dennis DeYoung

This is no condemnation of Chuck Berry, who I greatly admire. But Chuck Berry's music will not translate as well to orchestration because of its very three-chord rock 'n' roll nature. It is the music of the artists that are more pretentious, pompous or closer to the kind of big dramatic stylings that orchestras are good with.

Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton

It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity, extreme action, to push us to the limits of what our character is, and to change us as people.

Emily Mortimer
Emily Mortimer

I must have been a really pretentious little girl.

Emily Watson
Emily Watson

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.

Fantastic Negrito
Fantastic Negrito

I like being photographed without glasses. I don't want to be pretentious.

Felicity Jones
Felicity Jones

Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.

Giovanni Ribisi
Giovanni Ribisi

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.