Quotes About Seriousness

I want to prove to the skeptics that I'm not a clown. I'm very serious about what I do. I want to be a good ski jumper who has a sense of humor.

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.

Love, like Edg'd tools, should never be played with.

Snarls and sobs show that a love affair is getting serious.

For better or worse, I take my acting seriously. I may not have been in the best movies ever made, but I take it deathly serious, and I love being an actor.

You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be very serious... love life.

Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.

Love is such a confusing word. You think I'm joking but I'm not.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Life itself, the phenomenon of life, the gift of life, is so breath-takingly serious!

People who took themselves too seriously not only were no fun, but could also be very dangerous.

This is no jest, but life and death, perhaps more.

Don't assume, when a lady wants to take up a task or a cause, that is just a hobby.

There was more small talk, more laughing, sidelong glances, more of the unspoken physical friction that makes each new conquest so delightful. In the air was the strong smell of masculinity which creates the ideal medium for me to exist in. There was something in Emile tonight, a touch of seriousness, a chemical magnetism, that met my mood the way two pieces of a child's puzzle fit together.

LAVINIA: Oh Edward! The point is, that since I've been away I see that I've taken you much too seriously. And now I can see how absurd you are. EDWARD: That is a very serious conclusion to have arrived at in...how many?...thirty-two hours.

Mercurio's profound graveness tottered on the brink of extreme uncontrolled hilarity.

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

Sometimes I could grab her and pull her back on the couch, and we´d stay there a long time, me waiting for her to fall in love with me, her waiting for whatever, but other times she´d be serious.

People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly. We are wicked because we are frightfully self-conscious. We nurse a conscience because we are afraid to tell the truth to others; we take refuge in pride because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves. How can one be serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous!

For me, whatever I do, I believe, I must do it seriously and invest a lot of time to understand and learn.

There was a time when the conservative movement was led by the likes of Bill Buckley and Irving Kristol and Bob Bartley, men of ideas who invested the Republican Party with intellectual seriousness.

There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

I can bore for England on the subject of James Bond. But I knew I couldn't do it frivolously; I had to take it very seriously, however much fun I was having. And I had to make myself, you know, absolutely steeped in Bond and in Fleming and that world.

I've always liked historic jewellery that's got a kind of quirkiness or playfulness to it; I like that it's not too serious.