Quotes of: Pompous Keyword

Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.

Kevin Kline

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

Peter Jackson

Alice: [as a giant] And as for you... Your Majesty! Your Majesty indeed! Why, you're not a queen, [shrinking] Alice: But just a - a fat, pompous, bad tempered old ty...! [normal size] Alice: Tyrant. Queen of Hearts: [giggles] And uh, just what were y...

Alice in Wonderland

Simplicity is better than being pompous.

Henry Johnson Jr

I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

Neil Cavuto

Swansea is a town where art is alive. If it became a cultural centre or a resort where art was fashionable and where it was always being discussed but never being created, it would be a town where art was dead... There is no room in Swansea to be pom...

Dylan Thomas

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

Thomas Browne

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.

Marcus Brigstocke

Humour is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life.

Martin Freeman

Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

Don Adams

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.

Shelley Duvall

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

Barbara Stanwyck

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

William Makepeace Thackeray

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

Danny Boyle

I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

John Lone

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

John Shirley

From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling.

Lynn Collins

Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm certain of love, I guess.

Martin Freeman

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

Bernard Cornwell

There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.

Piers Morgan

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

Kathleen Turner