Quotes About Seriousness

Lots of people said that I have been a comic actor for such a long time, but as a director I was very serious.

With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more.

I have suffered racial prejudice, and I know how painful it is. People need to take this issue more seriously and engage in this fight against racism.

If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we're held to.

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness.

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

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

turn towards great and serious subjects, next to which irony becomes small and helpless.

Above all marriage is a new task and a new seriousness—a new challenge and a question regarding the strength and kindness of each participant and a new great danger for both.

The demands that the hard work of love make on our development are larger than life, and as beginners we are not a match for them. But if we can hold out and take this love upon us as a burden and an apprenticeship, instead of losing ourselves in all the trivial and frivolous games behind which people have hidden from the utter seriousness of their existence, then perhaps a small advance and some relief will be sensible to those who come long after us. That would mean a great deal.

Sex is difficult, true. But difficult things are what we were set to do, almost everything serious is difficult, and everything is serious.

But difficult things are what we were set to do, almost everything serious is difficult, and everything is serious.

The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you can put up with him, can you?

Everyone thinks that. It's one of those little secrets we keep from each other. Show me a serious man and I'll show you a man who has never wept. Show me a madman and I'll show you a man who dried his tears a long time ago. Go ahead." "I

I hope we will not get too serious here, for seriousness is the Red Death if we let it move too freely amongst us. Its freedom is our prison and our defeat and death. A good idea should worry us like a dog. We should not, in turn, worry it into the grave, smother it with intellect, pontificate it into snoozing, kill it with the death of a thousand analytical slices.

Let mortals never take a vow in jest; Be faithful and not blind in doing that, As Jephthah was in his first offering

In Communist countries they take writers very seriously—so seriously that they often kill them.

The key insight is that honest talk transforms and emancipates when it is received in faithful seriousness.

Quién no ha tenido que aguantarse alguna vez a un "experto" que se toma muy en serio a sí mismo y piensa que sus conocimientos son la sapiencia encarnada? Una de las características de la inflexibilidad mental es la solemnidad, que se manifiesta, abierta o soterradamente, como una fobia a la alegría.

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

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 huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this.