Quotes About Seriousness

I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

Ciddi olmamak ve ciddi görünmek gerekiyor. Ya da ciddi gibi görünmeden ciddi olmak. Ciddi gibi görünmekle ciddi olmay? birleÅŸtirenler deÄŸersiz kiÅŸilerdir.

Les expériences dangereuses, le monde les accepte dans le domaine de l'art parce qu'il ne prend pas l'art au sérieux, mais il les condamne dans la vie.

Bresson est à part dans ce métier terrible. Il s'exprime cinématographiquement comme un poète par la plume. Vaste est l'obstacle entre sa noblesse, son silence, son sérieux, ses rêves et tout un monde où ils passent pour de l'hésitation et de la manie.

There's no such thing as a limited victory. You must protect what you have won. You must take is seriously.

je prenais tout au sérieux, comme si j'avais été immortel.

I took everything as seriously as if I were immortal.

Those who hide their complete freedom from themselves out of a spirit of seriousness or by means of deterministic excuses, I shall call cowards; those who try to show that their existence was necessary, when it is the very contingency of man's appearance on earth, I shall call stinkers. But cowards or stinkers can be judged only from a strictly unbiased point of view.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

Do the work, enjoy the work, take it seriously, don't take yourself seriously and keep your head down!

As soon as I got funny, I killed any majestic intentions in my work.

I am not like my image; I take my work so seriously. Everyone thinks I just bounce in, but I study and everything has to be just right.

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.

Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.

I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.

You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your life.

Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.

I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

The U.S. cannot implement a cogent strategy on the world stage if no one is sure whether to take the President seriously.

I've always considered myself a serious guitar player, but I haven't been really worried about whether the public thought I was. That never was part of my record sales strategy.

I used to take life so seriously; I got so stressed.

I think movie sets can often be stressful, and people take themselves very seriously.