Zoe Kazan Quotes

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Washington is a city of arrogance.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

I kind of want to take the writer down a peg. I think there are a lot of pretentious writers in this business, which I am certainly one, in certain cases.

I think pompous accents are inherently funnier.

The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.

Wow. I am really pretentious.

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.

Style equals pretense.

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

Don't get me wrong - intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche.

You aren't that big a hot shot that we'd build this for you.

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional

Only an idiot would open an exhibition saying, 'Look at my awesome work.'

To be sure, many cultural elite pastimes are easily mocked and annoying.

Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympathy.

I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.