To be a great writer, you must be nomadic. I’d recommend the hunter/gatherer lifestyle for anybody serious about being nonsensical.

In the ’70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

It’s too bad that there aren’t as many light comedies around in the movies as there were when I was making pictures like ‘The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer.’ The boys are just not writing them....

There’s only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top.

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

My friends, life is so serious that if you are not aware of whom you are, your “youniversity” will be prestigious but unknown!

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, ‘I really like your tie.’

Real writers – serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it – all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms...

I didn’t pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I’d noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that made it difficult to tell...

None of the serious maritime incidents I had to deal with as transport minister off the pristine Queensland or Western Australian coastline involved an Australian flagged and crewed vessel.

I think the producers, for the most part, don’t want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a...

You’re talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year.

Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.

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

One of the things I regret is that magazines now are so lifestyle-orientated that the opportunity to do bigger projects is gone. This is a serious misjudgment on the part of magazine editors.

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is an obsession. And writing about this is an obsession. I think, in general,...

Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.

Perhaps I’m particularly serious, because I’m not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I’m doing.

I don’t want what Shaun Cassidy gets. I am a serious actress.

I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I’ve only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a “serious” novel.

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.

Sometimes When You Are Serious, People Thought You Were Joking, But Sometimes When You Are Joking, People Thought You Were Serious

The state of our state needs serious attention.

Once you don’t vote your ideals… that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

AIDS is such a scary thing and it’s also the kind of thing that you think won’t happen to you. It can happen to you and it’s deadly serious.

I love the Coen brothers. They’re so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. ‘A Serious Man’ was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a...

I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It’s my own paranoia.

I do think deception… There’s something kind of odd about tricking people for a living, but ultimately, it’s a remarkably honest profession, when you think about it. If you violate that code, and you say...

I have serious hearing loss. I’m challenged if I don’t have my hearing aids in.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

The Bangles are proof that short skirts and electric guitars go hand-in-hand. They are one of the great all-girl groups, backing up their looks with a serious pop-rock pedigree.

I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn’t with music.

I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.

Just because I’ve got blonde hair and haven’t been to Bosnia doesn’t mean I’m a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist.

A true Englishman doesn’t joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.

Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for human rights activists is a moral imperative for us and also makes the...

I like to see people laugh who are normally serious.

I think that if you are a serious writer, you are almost obligated to provide the intelligent average reader with something that they can relate to and care about. If you are writing only for...

I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.

When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big...

In the restaurant it’s much more serious.

A band’s first album’s usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

The Republicans need all the entertainment help they can get. When Charlie Daniels was one of your convention headliners, you know you need some serious help.

I feel like I’m married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it’s serious.

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

I’ve often been told I fight like a girl, probably because from the moment I whip off my bra, my opponent knows I mean business.