Serious Quotes

It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.

I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.

An eating disorder is serious and it’s a disease, and I don’t think you can lightly say that someone has a disease unless they’re openly telling you that they do.

As for the fashion world, the one thing I respect is its shallowness: it's so deep - it's so serious. It can be hard to get that kind of shallowness because of its depth and seriousness.

If you want to talk about distributing substances that are lethal, . . . let's be serious. Tobacco is far ahead of anything else. Alcohol is second.

You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot.

There is little doubt that a significant part of any serious solution will require advances of technology, but that can only be part of the solution. Other major changes are necessary.

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.

A nation with a goofy foreign policy needs a very serious policy of defense.

A naturopath once told me you should never take antibiotics except if you have pneumonia, a kidney infection or some other serious illness. That's my philosophy, too.

It's going to take from 40 to 118 years for the pay gap to close for women if we just go along with the status quo, so we need some serious, radical change.

Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.

It's much easier to do something that's seen as being serious because people accept it right away, they don't question what you do, they just accept, because they think you must be right.

If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.

Climate change is very real. It is a serious issue it should be treated that way... It is not just ours here in Iowa or even in the United States.

I take losses very personal and very serious.

When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.

[Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation.

This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.

Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.

I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster.

I suppose I was much more serious-minded in the '70s and '80s.

It's rare that a movie generally considered a popcorn type movie, gets recognized among such serious, great fare.

The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.

I'm 100 percent serious. I've been fighting for equality for women's issues my entire life, in the military included.

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

To me a lot of electronic music out there is too serious. I'm a bit fed up with DJs who take themselves too seriously and don't smile.

I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.

Hugh Laurie was intimidating, but he's the greatest guy. He's so wonderful and smart and funny and serious, and he sets the bar high. So if I was scared, it's because I wasn't measuring up.

I always loved doing productions in school. In college, I started getting a little more serious.

Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.

I'm always looking for perfection. Every photographer, in one way or another, if he's serious, is. He ain't ever going to get it. But hope springs eternal.

Life is as serious a thing as death.

I do not say correct or savory. I do not say seemly or even natural. I say serious. Sensationally serious. Unspeakably serious. Solemnly, recklessly, blissfully serious.

Quebec's financial situation is serious. In terms of intensity, we're close to matching 1982 and 1997. We won't do the same things this time, but the problems we face today are about as pressing.

I think that money is devoted to serious journalism, with analysis, interestingly presented, by good writers can still sell newspapers.

I was a commercial artist when I left school, but luckily I became an actor. I've painted for many, many years. Now the last few years it's gotten more serious.

There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.

One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists, sourpusses.

The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.

The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator.

The pope-and we know this well-is without doubt the most serious obstacle on the ecumenical road.

Let us settle down to the serious business of getting drunk.

I've always tried to come up with funny dancing since I was young, to attract girls' attention for one thing. It's got to be funny. I can't pull it off with serious dances. That's not me.

I don't have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, 'You're going to be fine. It ain't that serious!'

Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant

I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

People who watch Transporter are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.