Diane Lane Quotes

In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

I think we could all be a bit more elitist.

There's no snobbery in me.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

I think there are people who use classical music to say, 'I am better than you, because I know all the rules and you don't.' You're not allowed to have fun or entertain.

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place.

Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.

I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

The British film industry has always tried to sell itself as something rather sophisticated. It's almost as if it thinks it is by royal command. It has always tried to claim the high ground, not only over Hollywood but over the whole of humanity!

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.

I'm not a New York snob.

... more snobbish than their English butlers.

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

No social class, intellectual category or art form is immune to the snob virus.

Inside the intelligentsia, the pressure of public opinion is overwhelming. Nationalistic loyalty towards the proletariat, and most vicious theoretical hatred of the bourgeoisie, can and often do co-exist with ordinary snobbishness in everyday life.

I don't mind snobs, if they have a reason to be a snob.

Yeah, it is particularly upsetting to be called, whatever it was, sneery, or a snob, given the background I have.

The one thing that no Anglo-Saxon can stand is to be ruled by someone who 'talks fancy' by using Latinate words too often.

It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there.