Quotes About Seriousness

After that night, I really saw the heavy trip his family laid on him. To them, he was the Second Coming, the man of the house at age fourteen. Maybe that's why River always took himself so seriously," Hawke said.

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

Arland raised his eyebrows. "I've survived countless attempts at manipulation before. I appear to be too dense for it. However, I am open to being seduced." "Will you take this seriously?

That this world is a place of horror must affect every serious artist and thinker, darkening his reflection, ruining his system, sometimes actually driving him mad. Any seriousness avoids this fact at its peril, and the great ones who have seemed to neglect it have only done so in appearance.

she did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously if He himself never had.

En privado los chilenos tenemos la risa pronta y el chiste fácil, pero en público somos un pueblo de tontos graves paralizados por el temor de hacer el ridículo

One of the characteristics of Chileans in general, and of the descendants of Spaniards and Basques in particular, is their seriousness, which contrasts with the exuberant temperament so common in the rest of Latin America.

porque ela não acreditava que o mundo fosse um vale de lágrimas, mas, ao contrário, uma pilhéria de deus, e, por isso, seria estupidez levá-lo a sério.

A lot of players are straight-faced and serious; some are the opposite. It's like that until about 10 minutes before kick-off and I am in the zone. Then there is no more joking about.

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke.

It was horrible having to watch myself on TV. I think I would have had a much better time if I didn't take it so seriously.

I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they've been on reality TV or something.

When I was a kid, like four or five years old, I was obsessed with the 'Batman' TV show in the '60s. And I took it totally seriously. At that age, I took it completely seriously. I didn't get the fact that it was kind of played for laughs. I didn't understand why my mom was rolling her eyes or chuckling.

There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

I am not one of those people who like to play. I don't. I'm neither coy, nor do I, in any way, want to ask anyone to put up with somebody playing Hamlet.

I separated myself in Prada because I didn't want to have fun. They were all having a lot of fun - Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci - and they were a little coterie of laughs.

All that some actresses want is for people to take them seriously instead of caring about how they look.