Serious Quotes

The state of our state needs serious attention.

I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.

It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.

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.

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.

So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities.

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.

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

My work is a game, a very serious game.

I like to see people laugh who are normally serious.

Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that's because most people there have never seen it get serious.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

I am a serious guy.

Starting in '98 when I was researching 'Traffic,' I got to meet really serious people in Washington, which for a screenwriter was kind of a great gift. And I really valued these guys; I stayed in touch with them, and I find their point-of-view quite interesting.

I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke.

One day, we were doing a serious scene and fast talking like we do and we could not stop laughing and the director had to stop the production. We had to go to our trailer and calm down and do it all again.

I'm very serious about acting.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals, rather than as members of a team working together for their patients. Both practices have made for serious problems.

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.

I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.

In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk.

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.

More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.

What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious. The name thing: I will always be L.L. Cool J.

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.

Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.

Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along.

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top.

I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.

I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.

In the restaurant it's much more serious.

I've always been known for bold flavors and rustic cooking, but there is another side to me. As you evolve as a cook, you understand life and how serious it is. There comes a point where there's got to be a better balance.

I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.

The idea of doing a children's film is different, but quite honestly I like doing anything - any genre. I've only made one Western, which was 'Three Amigos,' but I would love to make a serious Western. I'm just wide open.

If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.

We are the greatest country in the world but we are facing serious issues.

For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was stained, you were in very serious trouble. People fought duels over this. Then it fades away historically.

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse.

Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

Influenza is a serious disease. Kids die of influenza, both in Japan and the United States, and if you give a drug to people who are at risk of dying, there will be people who die who got the drug,... There is no signal the drug is doing it as opposed to the disease.

Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.

I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

Leonardo DiCaprio is a very serious young actor.

Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.