Serious Quotes

I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.

Anyone who relies exclusively on television for his or her knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake.

A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.

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.

But ya have to make videos in the States. Usually ours just look too serious. We haven't got it together.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.

I am a professional performer and I only appear on TV for entertainment or for philanthropic organizations, and I consider this a very serious matter that doesn't fit into either category.

See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

When I was in high school I was a super serious athlete. I wasn't fun at all.

Life has become serious for me, although I do like to party every now and then.

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.

I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. I never got in serious trouble, except for my grades.

Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

My house is very serious. It's a lot of antiques, and the way I decided to liven it up is, I paired it very vibrant colors and - bugs... I think that they're pretty. And I think that they're fascinating and they're natural.

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.

Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities.

This we had to endure with a serious reduction in the price of goods - added to this early in the ensuing spring our glost oven fell while firing doing us considerable damage and rendering it necessary to build a new one.

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.

The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

Every year I just kept going back to gymnastics, but I didn't start out training 10 hours a day. When I turned 10 or 11, I got more serious and I focused a lot on making it to the elite level, and from there I just kept going.

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.

One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.