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.

I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have...

‘Honky Tonk Badonkadonk’ wasn’t some serious song, but it was huge! It was funny.

Insider trading is a serious crime. Do you know what the penalty for doing it is? Nothing, if you’re a member of Congress.

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.

I’ve never really been serious about my villainy. I don’t have a master plan. I suppose my philosophy is: Every villain has a mother. For every cold-blooded killer on your screen, there’s a little old...

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.[Diary entry, 1971]

Before I got divorced, I was personally unfamiliar with trial, or at least trial of serious, heart-wrenching proportions. I figured that life went smoothly if you tried hard, and if you messed up, or things...

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.

I don’t think I’ve had to change anything, really, apart from being more serious and focussed on my drive. One thing I’ve realised is that you get out what you put in and because of...