I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing.
In the '90s movies were so serious, and so stylistic and slick that I could not identify with them.
Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
I think that the world is in a very serious decline - very, very serious.
In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.
We should be leading, and we’re not. We need to get serious about broadband, we need to get serious about competition, we need to get serious about our country.
Taxi Driver' is a movie that changed my life and made me a serious actor. Scorsese and De Niro. I give credit for anything that I've ever done as an actor.
You have to raise $100 million, probably, to be serious.
To remain silent for only one minute is a serious punishment for a gabby!
When the situation is serious, don't be funny; and when the situation is funny, don't 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!
You know, I never trust people who don't laugh, who said, "I am serious" and act as if they put airplane glue on the back of their hands and stuck the glue to their foreheads. I think, "You're not serious; you're boring as hell."
One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a time and saying if it comes, good; if it doesn't come, good, I'll just sit here.
If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.
William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.
As soon as I hear the word "competition" I get serious and start doing everything that I can do.
But to win, I was overwhelmed - it felt great! I was really excited. I didn't expect it, but I'm also really competitive. As soon as I hear the word "competition" I get serious and start doing everything that I can do.
We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.
Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?
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.
So, they have the same vibe of like that fun kind of spirit, but this one's a lot more serious. It's like, get it done, get it done right, you know? It's got to be perfect. We definitely do lots of takes on this.
Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.
While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw--that of outright unreadability.
It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.
Something really serious has shifted in the minds of Republicans and certainly others.
