Quotes About Serious

I tend to keep my thoughts to myself, which is why I scowl a lot,

I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for.

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

I was never made to feel that fashion was frivolous and any old dress would do. Fashion was serious stuff in my house and in my life. In fact, most memories I have growing up involve beautiful dresses.

I think that Matt Murdock, the way he kind of holds himself, he's quite sensible at times, and he's quite serious. I think he would admire Captain America - not that he wouldn't admire Iron Man, but I think he probably be a little put off by his grandiosity.

I am not irresponsible.

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

It's serious to actually be found guilty and get jail time. It's really serious and a bit weird. But it's so bizarre that we were convicted at all.

Jessica Jones is such a great part, and I do serious work on it. I feel really creatively fulfilled.

I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.

I was going to be a Marine before I was going to be an actor. I was really serious about joining the Marine Corps.

Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.

I'm not a joke guy; I'm not a stand-up comic.

I'm an efficient striker, but I'm not a joker.

If you do something that is not gags and punchlines and is character-based, where there are no jokes as such, then it all has to come from a place of truth, and I love that - I love nothing more than getting very serious about my comedy.

I'm definitely not joking around on set.

You are so serious, as if a glacier spoke in your ear or you had to walk through the great gate of Kiev to get to the living room.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

As a science, I should say that chart reading shares a pedestal with astrology; but most chart readers are educated men and have too much mental discipline to take astrology seriously.

Much of what I have learned, as well as much of my intellectual enjoyment, has come through problem solving. Through the years, I've found it more and more difficult to tell when I was working and when playing, for it has so often turned out that what I have learned playing with problems has been useful in my serious work.

I am the oldest of four, so I often felt the brunt of the madness, along with the responsibility of protecting my siblings from the unpredictable swings. When things were bad, I was the protector. When things were great, I was the protector-in-waiting, always on the outside of the fun, easily teased for being too serious, and always knowing that we were one sideways glance or one smart-ass comment from chaos.

Sounds to me like you're praying Violet, not wishing. When we wish, it's usually for something frivolous...Something not serious. Like what you want for your birthday. Prayers are for more serious things." -Mom

Don't you understand that this is serious?" she screamed. "Anna is missing!

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things.