Serious Quotes

I don't want to make pompous, serious films.

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

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!

It's hard to be serious about so many things. [Look at the whole emphasis] on the charts, if you're a songwriter.

I'm good at keeping secrets, but if it's not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I'll tell someone else.

Waking up is not serious. It is a gentle remembering and an honoring of the present moment as the truth of life.

I was the angriest little person imaginable when I was younger. I woke up with a frown every morning. I barely talked, wore black all the time and had some serious teenage rebellion years

I guess there are no real strict rules [in comedy], but I just learn to apply my philosophy about comedy which is, it's a serious business and the result needs to be funny, not the process.

When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

Serious work gets done ... in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh.

You know, just because you're a blonde type doesn't mean you can't suddenly do serious parts.

The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.

One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

Never knowingly be serious. Rule 27.

I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.

There is no question about the fact that we had very serious disagreements with my German, French, and Russian colleagues over the Iraq war. But I never stopped talking.

The hockey lockout of 1994 - 1995 has been settled. They have stopped bickering... and can now get down to some serious bloodshed!

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.

I just remember that whenever I got really mad or passionate, like in an argument, people would laugh, and I'd be dead serious. It would happen a lot. So it was like, Gee, I've got something here.

Until we have a serious discussion, this problem [racism] will continue to occur.

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Serious numbers will speak to us always.

If you spent a proper amount of time with me, you would probably wonder if I was on drugs - I'm not. I'm just incredibly hyperactive and manic. I can be quiet and serious at the same time.

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]

I initially studied literature [in France], and then I went to cinema school. I discovered the Cinematheque, and saw not only action movies and westerns, but also lots of serious movies.

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans’ fears about the future.

Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.

I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious.

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

Serious music isn't listened to in a casual setting. You don't want to listen to that in headphones on the subway.

There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.

If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark; And what if I don't, and what if I do?

Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.

The government, the state, they're just objects of jokes rather than serious consideration. I can't possibly take them seriously.

White Chocolate. Intense, sweet. But not deep. Okay for prom dates or flings, but not to get serious..Milk chocolates are guys you could date for like a few months, and dark chocolates are for love.

According to the New York Post, Lance Armstrong and Ashley Olsen are dating. They must be getting serious - Lance gave Ashley his yellow Live Strong bracelet. She wears it as a belt.

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

I'm reteaming with the producers of 'Twilight' on an awesome script. It's very serious, dramatic and different for me. I'm excited to see what's next. I love all aspects of film and all genres.

On a serious note, we don't think we're trying to be so different, it's just that everyone else is trying to be same.

If you are serious about changing your life, you are going to have to get into the Bible. You need to read it, study it, memorize it, meditate on it, and apply it.

The prayer does call for serious, serious punishment on people. But I didn't call for that, God did.

I feel Britannia High is aimed at an older audience than High School Musical. Britannia High is more of a serious drama, with the music and dance on top.

Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.

When I am playing with my grandchildren, that brings glory to God. So I don't think glory to God is simply serious. I do think that there is glory of God in laughter.