Play so that you may be serious.

I can be quite serious sometimes so laughing is key.

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...

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.

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

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

‘Miracle at St. Anna.’ I was challenged by Spike Lee. When he offered me the film, he looked me square in the eye and said, ‘You start this film off and you end this film....

There is a line between scurrilous nonsense and serious discussion that laps over, especially in this day and age when you’ve got all this electronic media and these blogs and this kind of fanatical impulse...

Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does...

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it’s much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.

Someone has to be stoic, for the sake of, in spite of, and in the face of all those who are, not. Someone, has to be serious. Someone has to choose to forgo choice, so...

I’m good at keeping secrets, but if it’s not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I’ll tell someone else.

I had a serious childhood illness – sort of like spinal meningitis – that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn’t be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.

I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past.

I can be really silly, but I never get to do that. I’m always playing on-the-nose characters, professionals – lawyers, a serious news anchor, people with a really focused energy, which can become a cliched...

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood – sex and the dead.

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.