Serious Quotes - Page 28

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

Worldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world

Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

When I was 17, my producer Rodney Jerkins was working with Michael Jackson at the time. He knew how much I wanted to meet Michael Jackson, so he says, 'Would you like to come and meet him?' I'm like, 'Are you serious? Of course I want to meet Michael Jackson! Where do I meet you? Where do we come?'

Things are getting worse. You know, when you look at this campaign, and you realize the enormously serious issues this country faces, right, we got a collapsing middle class. We have more wealth and income inequality today than we've had since the 1920s. We have all of these enormous issues.

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.

Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life.

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow.

I like to write about love plus an obstacle. Not a really big obstacle; not too serious and not too funny. Just somewhere nicely in between - a combination of the two.

Corbyn's words imply a serious lack of moral judgement. Just as all Muslims are not to blame for ISIS, not all Brits are to blame for [Jeremy] Corbyn.

The next most dangerous thing [after nuclear proliferation] is probably... global warming, and then, right behind that are overpopulation -- we need to get serious about family planning-and trying to alleviate poverty, to get clean, renewable energy, probably with solar panels to the billion and a half people in the world who don't have access to electricity.

The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.

Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.

If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.

I was a serious method actor until I visited this site.

I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.

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

I'm a serious person by nature - sometimes too serious.

There is nothing in cricket more calculated to raise a laugh than the sight of some determined and serious man under a spiralling catch.

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.