Serious Quotes - Page 9

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.

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

When are people finally going to get serious about being serious?

Don't take life too seriously! Learn to enjoy yourself and be grateful for all you have.

If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

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

The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one root-idea of a complete conversion of social power into State power.

Laughter is more serious than tears.

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.

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

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

I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball

Ten out of ten people die, so don't take life too seriously.

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

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 always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

A joke's a very serious thing.

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

Whatever happens, my audience mustn't know whether I am spoofing or being serious; and likewise I mustn't know either. I am in a constant interrogation; when does the deep and philosophically valid Dali begin, and where does the looney and preposterous Dali end?

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.

We have a choice every day between fear and love.

The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.

I am a serious food lover and Peruvian cuisine is one of the best in the world.

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