Quotes About Serious

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not a devil, either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.

Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.

This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?

Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

I have been single for some time, and when I say "some time," I mean so long that I have acquaintances who have gotten married, divorced, remarried, and had two children since I last had a serious boyfriend.

Dude, you're scaring the crap out of me,' said Nick. 'I'm serious, I literally have no crap right now.

The only serious debate in numbers terms is whether the death toll from coal is five hundred times worse than nuclear, or many thousands of times worse.

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.

I'm not going to be remotely funny.

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

Hugh Laurie was intimidating, but he's the greatest guy. He's so wonderful and smart and funny and serious, and he sets the bar high. So if I was scared, it's because I wasn't measuring up.

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.

I write funny nonfiction adventure books about crazy, serious worlds.

Being serious is serious business in fiction. It's commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It's too accessible to the great unwashed.

When the situation is serious, don't be funny; and when the situation is funny, don't be serious!

In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.

Buffoons may have serious faces behind their mask!

Well, for future reference, this is my serious face.