Serious Quotes

There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.

If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.

I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.

By ourselves we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful.

Acting represents all that human beings experience, and if you want it to be 'nice,' you will never be a serious communicator of the human experience.

[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.

In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.

They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.

I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers.

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes.

A joke's a very serious thing.

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie.

Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun.

I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

When I was young, I was sold on winning. I was always serious on the court. As I got older, I realized that it was just a basketball game. Just go out there and have fun.

Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.

It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.

I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy... Im more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious Oscar drama.

When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation.

If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road.

If in your lifetime you watch a species go extinct, or plummet almost to the point of extinction, that is a sign that something really serious is going on.

I'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.

I think that you have to seriously have fun, or taking serious things in a light way and obviously, for me, before all, music is made of fun and pleasure and excitement.

And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.

If God created everything, he's got a serious quality control problem.

Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

The United States has never entered a serious war, and has never been victorious.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

To the Green movement in which infantilism is seen at its worst, authority is a far more serious evil than the destruction of life.

I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.

We have a choice every day between fear and love.

This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.

Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental conditions hardly distinguishable from monomania.

I think the clearest manifestation for anyone who doubts that racism and classism exist in America, all one need do is take a real serious objective look at our criminal justice system.