Quotes About Seriousness

Will you take this seriously? The future of an entire species is at stake." "Yes, we're going to save them with a fart gun.

One day I'll kill him, you know. I glanced at her. She was deadly serious.

As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you're trying to be taken seriously.

Being taken seriously as a young woman is the biggest hurdle as I grow older.

Young writers take themselves very seriously in college.

When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.

I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.

If you can make me laugh, my heart is yours! I think there's nothing more attractive than someone who doesn't take themselves too seriously.

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

I think it's just really important for youth today to have a passion and pursue something seriously.

When I was younger I just played football for the fun of it, scoring the maddest goals and trying to come up with new tricks but when you've got to take yourself into a proper match, you've got be serious.

Notes on 'Camp' talks a lot about homosexuality and androgyny and performance and a false seriousness, nit-picking the trivial things and making them funny. And that's exactly what drag does. Reading through the entire essay I couldn't help but relate all of it back to drag.

A decision by the government to arm the rebels in Syria ought to be taken as carefully as one to commit British troops. It is akin to war, albeit by proxy, and must be treated with equal seriousness and meet the tests for a just war.

There is no doubt that the world economy is in trouble. But if governments or individuals use this as an excuse to reduce assistance to the world's poorest people, they will only multiply the seriousness of the problem for the world as a whole.

Take anything seriously in life, and you set yourself up for peril - trust me.

No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity.

Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity...

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.

Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don't value architecture, we don't take it seriously, we don't want to pay for it and the architect isn't trusted.

Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.

I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.

I want you to know that I'm serious. You're not a hook up. You're not a friend with benefits. You're more than that to me.