I look more Indian when I’m serious.

Life’s too short to take yourself seriously, and too long to take a wife jokingly.

Why should the court impose a judgment in a case in which the SEC alleges a serious securities fraud, but the defendant neither admits nor denies wrongdoing?

The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them.

At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious.

Take care of your manners as seriously as your money.

Just because you know it [my past]… doesn’t mean that my wounds are a weight you have to carry. ~Kurogane-san

Some say you have only one shot in life, well if you get ammo, you can reload.

The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like ‘you want to do this again’?

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

Don’t put the hat in hate and then wear it around with pride. Wear your love like socks for gloves, and let the world know you’re serious.

I wouldn’t, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I’d learnt that when you’re in the serious situations, you’ve got to try to stay calm. Because that’s the way you get out of them.

When what one does, reps, or ‘spits’, repetitively, is foul or beastly – one summons spiritual undertakers to dine on fleshly parasites. In various forms, nature’s law purges all that becomes wasteful. Change your game,...

It’s so funny, because right now I’m very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I’m probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now.

Ever since the ’70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.

I’m not involved in light, frivolous matters. I’m not involved in fringe or side issues. I’m involved in serious issues.

First National Bank laid off 1,000 people; where do they go? There are no jobs for them. So we are having serious economic problems in this country. We are in a real economic crisis.

I have to be entertained by what I’m writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with...

I’ve always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don’t see me as just Harry Potter, I’ll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a...

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

Sex is difficult; yes. But those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.

Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.

Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.

I think a lot of people are getting more serious about how to do the most good, but there is no road map. I’m hoping I can offer an example.

I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.

If I could only teach you one thing about the world, it would be to Appreciate and be as present as possible in every moment. Take everything in and try and learn from it. No...

You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change.

Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you’re entertaining people.

Serious journalism need not be solemn.

I think the state has some serious problems. Just look at the layoffs going on across the state, not just in Chicago. It affects the middle class. It pushes people down.

I’d have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning. ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ is like that. That’s my fave genre, if I had to pick one.

In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I’m this hunk.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

I want to write about serious things, but I want to write about them in a way that makes them accessible to a large number of people – to take them through the argument by...

I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I’d think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, ‘No – it took you...

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of...

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

Certain things are extremely difficult to understand, such as the concept of unconditional love, perhaps it is due to mislead thoughts about God’s love for us. Assuming that we can say or do certain things...

I don’t want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I...

You all have your own distinct personal backgrounds. Of course some of you come from rich families, some from poor families. But circumstances beyond your control like that shouldn’t determine who you are. You must...

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn’t aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

I don’t want to express alienation. It isn’t what I feel. I’m interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

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....