Quotes About Seriousness

Game over, you say, and I don't know which I take more exception to-- the fact that you say its over, or the fact that you say it's a game.

Hay juegos que debemos tomar en serio, como el poquer, ahi hay dinero de por medio. Pero la guerra? Es un chiste.

It was also clear that in order to survive at this game, we had to get serious.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.

People who take themselves too seriously, who can't see anything else, are usually funny.

Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain of life. It is unsentimental, it takes us seriously as human beings, it is not condescending. Paradoxically, by seeing pain we are made greater, it becomes a need.

Nothing is casual. Everything requires work, research, and thought. Agonize. Take it seriously. Don't leave it up to someone else, and don't phone it in. There is no such thing as a shortcut if you are going to turn in good work. If I ever enjoy the process, I know I have somehow produced something worthless.

I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.

At times like this,' she would say, 'you learn about death, privation, danger, which makes you appreciate safety and how quickly it can change. You learn to be serious about what counts.

Serious things cannot be understood without humorous things Nor opposites without opposites.

Las cosas serias no se pueden entender sin las cosas humorísticas; ni los opuestos sin opuestos.

There's a paradox to most things in life. Acting is often dressing up in frocks and chasing your ego, but that doesn't mean you don't take it seriously.

Please let me go now," she said in a soft voice. "I can be of no further use to you." "Suppose I want to keep you as my own?" She pushed his hand away and sat up. "I am serious, Raven." "Perhaps I am too.

I felt resolved to give up every thing, and seek to be reconciled to God. That fear, which I had ever felt, that others would know I was serious, now vanished away, and I was willing that the whole universe should know that I felt myself to be lost and perishing sinner

Please, Lauren," Will said. "You know you're not the kind of girl you date." "Ouch." He leveled her gaze. "You're the kind of girl you marry.

There's nothing worse than a celebrity trying to be funny. Unless it's a politician trying to be serious.

There's nothing quite so depressing as a man in a suit who's lost his sense of humor.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

It's not that Millennials don't believe some things are serious. We'll make 'It Gets Better' videos or perform comedy for disaster relief. But sum up our lives in a phrase? The Importance of Never Being Too Earnest.

We take the art seriously. We take communicating it seriously. And maybe we took ourselves a little too seriously in the beginning. Sometimes I watch the videos, and I think, 'Yeah, you could've relaxed a lot in the 'I Alone' video,' you know?

You know, Owen, it's deeply concerning how lightly you take the killing of another human.

Eric had asked administration not to pipe the music into his unit but they said it would cost too much to alter the system. He told them to take it out of his budget but they said no...He knew it was part of the larger problem, that mental illness wasn't taken seriously as physical illness...

What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious. The name thing: I will always be L.L. Cool J.