Quotes About Seriousness

I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it.

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.

There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you're writing about something that people take very seriously.

Elise, you're taking this too seriously. We're men. If we have a problem, we punch one another. It's just how we handle things.

I Take Life Very Seriously: One Joke At A Time.

Julie, with two disappointing years of fencing lessons in his recent past, had the advantage of knowing what to do with a sword if you actually held one, while Titus had the advantage that he always would have: The whole thing was his idea. He was the one causing things to happen, driving them, taking them seriously long enough and intensely enough—and in public—to make them somehow be.

Le facce dei bambini erano stupite, esitanti. Il lento, triste, oscuro sottomarino che trasportava il carico delle loro vite, era improvvisamente emerso in superficie. Nel loro sangue ora circolava disordinatamente l'azoto della meraviglia. Nessuno rideva o sorrideva, ma si sa che quando si divertono davvero, i bambini sono sempre seri.

The first thing that surprised me when I came to work here," the Manager said, "was that the owner took me seriously.

What was important was how seriously I took to playing the game he had created here.

Te voy a dar un consejo: No te tomes tan en serio a ti mismo. En el fondo, tú no importas.

Hasta entonces, todo había sido para él como un gran juego. Se lo había tomado tan en serio como se tomaba cualquier juego y cualquier cuento, sin pensar en las consecuencias. Por primera vez en su vida, una historia continuaba sin él, se hacía independiente, y ni toda la fantasía del mundo podía hacerla dar marcha atrás. Se sentía paralizado.

When a population is distracted by trivia," wrote Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death, "when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk. Culture death is a real possibility.

A lot of guys out here are very serious, and God bless them, that's their personality. It's not a sin to be business-like.

An actor must have the sincerity to what he is doing. So you can't take things lightly, you have to be serious every time.

People see me as Kylie the singer. It would be a dream for me to be taken seriously as an actress.

I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.

There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle.

The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes their situations really seriously, and you feel like you're just dropped into a different world.

There are some situations in life that are simply not funny, and there's nothing funny about them, but they're rare, and they don't last all that long.

I don't find the characters I've played funny. The characters are actually taking their situations very seriously.