Serious Quotes

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

Just to get serious about this thing, you know. One has to be compassionate. It's true that people are up against things, economically and emotionally.

Helloooo." Miss Ohio rolled her eyes. "I'm from the Buckeye State. We are serious about our tailgating parties. I can turn anything into a grill.

When it comes to exercise, I don't like anything that's too serious.

[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that duality.

You can do some serious subway flirting before you realize the guy is homeless.

I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.

I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey... serious Jim Carrey though.

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied.

Cara [Delevingne] I wanted to be sure that she would be involved. 'Cause she didn't do a lot of films before I met her, so I didn't know if she was serious and so I push her a bit.

You're right, he's a killer," you said. "A rooster with some serious issues.

Don't look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can't be sober and serious - everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.

I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'

Taking risks is not being suicidal. Otherwise, skydivers need serious help.

It's a lovely answer and takes me entirely by surprise. I hadn't realized we were having a serious conversation, or I think I would've given a better reply when he asked me.

Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.

Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.

Whomever it is you were born to be, whatever your soul was coded to accomplish, whatever lessons you were born to learn, now is the time to get serious and get going.

These are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking.

When many people think of "new age" they think of crystals and purple decals and ceramic angels in people's windows and a kind of fuzzy thinking - which is abhorrent to a serious person.

I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.

There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets rushing to the therapist's couch.

God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor.

Something really serious has shifted in the minds of Republicans and certainly others.

The world obviously needs to change ... if we can't protect our innocent women and children, then we have a serious problem.

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw--that of outright unreadability.

You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but for the most part, I don't get offered serious roles.

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal.

I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.

Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?

We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.

Let's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved.

People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users.

For better or worse, I take my acting seriously. I may not have been in the best movies ever made, but I take it deathly serious, and I love being an actor.

New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.

As soon as I hear the word "competition" I get serious and start doing everything that I can do.

There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.

William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.

Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.

You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be very serious... love life.

People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she's so serious and stoic. I'm the opposite.

In life, always choose a serious rival even if you know you have no chance to win, because a good rival is always a good teacher!

Those that can't change even their toothbrush and pyjamas are trying to change the world! Let us be serious!

Don't talk me about religion! Don't talk me about tales for children! Be serious! Trust science, because only the science can save you!