Smug Quotes

I think that London is very much like that. I find there`s humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it`s a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive.

I don`t want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it`s gone. I think it`s fine.

In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don`t really need to explain very much at all - you just say he`s a spy and he`s a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he`s not very good at his job.

(The Pillow Book) The film has written and spoken dialogue in twenty-five languages - English, French, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Latin, Hebrew, necrotic Egyptian ... and it has written calligraphic text on paper, wood, and flesh, on flat and curved surfaces, vertically and horizontally, on both living and dead flesh, in neon, on screens, in projection, as sub-title, inter-title, and sur-title, as High Art and low art, as advertisement and banker`s check and registration plate, on photograph, on blackboard, as letter correspondence, as photocopy facsimile, and spoken, chanted, and sung, with and without music ... a mocking challenge. You want text? Cinema wants text? Cinema pretends to eschew text? Then we can give you text to mock that smug suggestion that cinema thinks it is pictures.

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.