Serious Quotes - Page 45

The most serious film can be the most fun. The one that's supposed to be fun can be the most serious.

I think quite often, being on the new set is not what you expect. The most serious film can be the most fun. The one that's supposed to be fun can be the most serious. I don't think there are any hard-and-fast rules. I just think it really depends on your director and what the general vibe is.

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

Serious music usually doesn't pay.

Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

If you're a serious actor, you wouldn't put yourself up for one of those shows in case you got bumped off the first week and all your colleagues saw it.

I maintain that no movie can be funny enough. I mean even the most serious, even the most intense movie and I know enough about life to know in those dark moments inevitably someone will say something funny and I will be part of the whole experience.

There is more action in some other countries. In Germany, they've called for a very serious inquiry that's discovering more and more. They've just discovered a significant violation of the German Constitution that had been concealed from the Parliament.

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with the best of intentions, and I recommend it to every serious wino.

When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.

Every major industrial society believes that it has a serious youth problem.

Canadians are fond of darker stories, serious stories, so if you're a Mystery writer or a Romance writer or Fantasy Writer, you will most likely have an American publisher and agent.

It's not meant to be entertaining. If you want entertainment, go to the pictures. This is serious!

If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

I think we all know the budgetary environment we live in. We all know the troubling future for federal deficits. They should pay for everything. This shouldn't be special on this bill or another one. The Congress has to get serious about controlling spending.

...and the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He then had another quick one to follow the first one down and check that it was all right.

There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

There are serious problems that have to do with the environment, that have to do with the way in which we live and consume.

Hillary Clinton's guilty of a very, very serious crime. She should not be allowed to run for president.

I never said I'd support Paul Ryan. I'm giving it very serious consideration.