Quotes About Serious

I have been a funny kid growing up but every one thought I was a serious person. I think it has to do with the choice of my films such as 'Zakhm,' 'Kalyug' and 'Traffic Signal.'

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.

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

I often find in doing tragedy, or doing very serious material, that there's a level of anxiety that builds that often leads to laughter in some cases. In between takes, there can often be a lightness.

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things.

I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.

Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.

One day, we were doing a serious scene and fast talking like we do and we could not stop laughing and the director had to stop the production. We had to go to our trailer and calm down and do it all again.

I never let on I was a comedian. I never acted out. It was really important to me, like, to not be Patch Adams. I was so super serious as a doctor, I would bark orders to my nurses. I was hard-core. I wanted to make sure I did my job right. I was perfectly trained to be a physician. You know, it wasn't a fluke. I worked hard at it.

Until we take seriously God's definition of the church and stop just 'having church,' we will not see transformation in our society.

Drew Barrymore's Guess shoot took place as she was making the transition to serious actress after having been more known as a child actress who had become overwhelmed by the Hollywood lifestyle.

You know Marques Houston, you know I'm a dancer, I'm a singer, but I wouldn't want to do a movie that I'm a dancer and a singer in. I want to do movies that people can take me more seriously in as an actor, because when you're making that transition, it is tough.

Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.

But you're worried I'll get in trouble?" I try not to show how much this pleases me. I've managed to ignore him for days now and here I sit. Lapping up his attention like a neglected puppy. My voice takes on an edge. "Why do you care? I've ignored you for days." His smile fades. He looks serious, mockingly so. "Yeah. You got to stop that.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

I take my profession as an economist seriously and feel a commitment to the truth. This is incompatible with having to toe the political party line.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

Paper." "What kind of paper? What for?" "A letter." "Business? Personal? This is for you? You're going to write a letter?" "Yes, sir." "Well, what kind of a letter is it?" Tommy considered the question for a moment, seriously. He didn't want to get the wrong kind of paper. "A death threat," he said at last.

this indiscriminate love feels entirely serious to her, as if everything in the world is part of a vast, inscrutable intention and everything in the world has its own secret name, a name that cannot be conveyed in language but is simply the sight and feel of the thing itself.

And that was the second thing that surprised me when I came to work here," the Manager continued. "How seriously the Boss took the operation of this hotel.

Premised as they were not on profits but on perceptions, these new Internet businesses were still all but unrecognizable to the Serious American Executive.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.