Quotes About Seriousness

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.

In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.

Growing up, I was always adamant that I would never do 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours,' because as an actor you want to set your path as that serious kind of actor.

People know, lyrically, I go in, and you should never take me lightly on any record.

Never think you're too good for a role, and never take yourself too seriously.

I train really hard for each and every fight. I never take anyone lightly.

I had no fun. My family was too serious.

Fun? There is no fun.

'The New York Times' is a great newspaper: it is also No Fun.

At no point was I like, 'Man, I gotta write me a part where people are going to take me seriously'.

I have always been accused of taking the things I love - football, of course, but also books and records - much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me.

I don't have the heart to tell my sons that the older one gets, the less funny literature becomes—and they would refuse to believe me if I tried to explain that some people don't think jokes even belong in proper books. I won't bother breaking the news that, if they remain readers, they will insist on depressing themselves for about a decade of their lives, in a concerted search of gravitas through literature.

It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes; it's as if they are under-humored and, as a consequence, suffer from premature laugh-ejaculation.

It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes; it's as if they are under-humoured and, as a consequence, suffer from premature laugh-ejaculation.

When you fight to be taken seriously, you don't smile in photos.

The term physical is just kinda like an honorific word, kinda like the word 'real' when we say 'the real truth'. It doesn't add anything, it just says 'this is serious truth'. So to say that something is 'physical' today just means 'you gotta take this seriously'.

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Ninguém a levaria a sério, a não ser que ela mesma se levasse a sério.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different.

The first moment someone calls for a revolution is usually the last moment I take them seriously.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

In truth, Jules, I learned long ago that in this world a woman, as opposed to a man, is judged far more on her appearance than her intelligence, and men quite prefer a frivolous nature to a serious one. Someday, when I am old and long married, I fully intend to allow my mind free rein and explore all sorts of fascinating interests.

George, you must realize that the world is a joke. There is no justice, everything is random. Only when you realize this will you understand how silly it is to take yourself seriously. There is no grand purpose in the universe. It just is. There's no particular meaning in what decision you make today about how to act.

they did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequence. They preferred to close their eyes and to live in the past. Life for such people became meaningless. Naturally