Serious Quotes

Living is very serious, very real. It is also always a game. If we are wise, it is very real, very terrible, and very lovely, and a good deal of fun.

If you're a serious actor, you wouldn't put yourself up for one of those shows in case you got bumped off the first week and all your colleagues saw it.

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.

The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.

Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible.

You don't realize how easy one is until you have two. Now I'm really a mom. Oh, I am a mom now! This is for serious — I am responsible for two people now.

I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression - that you should take on this work like a holy calling.

She looked at me for real and saw I was serious. She saw I knew she was for me like you know that tomorrow morning the sun will rise.

Serious music usually doesn't pay.

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

The most serious film can be the most fun. The one that's supposed to be fun can be the most serious.

Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.

Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society.

The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.

I'm very serious; I don't waste my earnings.

I like to be around people who make me laugh. It's one of my favorite things on a set. I hate it when people take themselves serious in a film set.

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter and more serious side is important.

Imagine what our planet would look like with an increase in temperature of two degrees or four degrees, given that at 0.8 degrees we already have serious problems in the world.

I really do not think there is a serious split between Republicans and Democrats in Congress in how responsive they are to constituents.

I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.

I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.

Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.

Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to me.

No serious student of the Bible in English can neglect the Revised Version without loss.

I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment.

In Tantric Zen you can be humorous and make fun of anything or you can be very serious.

When someone says to me "I want to be enlightened." I immediately take a vacation because I know that the person isn't serious. I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.

My favorite people to have fun with are police officers 'cause they're so serious, you know.

I wanted to be a "serious artist." Serious artists didn't tend to be funny. But that didn't get me a lot of attention. And just growing older, you can't help it, you take things less seriously.

I'm not saying that George W. Bush did everything right. But even if you take a skeptical view of his Iraq war, [Barack] Obama made the more serious error of withdrawing his troops from Iraq early.

I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.

Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.

Smiles, like humor, are the most serious and complex forms of communication used by human beings.

Today the term "global" can no longer constitute a serious topic for an in-depth intellectual discussion because it simply means "Camerica".

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

I never took the work less than serious, my work ethic is ingrained in me. But I've always had a sense of humor about myself.

The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

We have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil... The best way to break this addiction is through technology.

I mean, there was a serious international effort to say to Saddam Hussein: 'You're a threat'. And the 9/11 attacks accentuated that threat, as far as I'm concerned.

Coalition forces have encountered serious violence in some areas of Iraq. Our military commanders report that this violence is being insticated by three groups.