Quotes About Seriousness

This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

A civil servant doesn't make jokes

A joke is a very serious thing

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Life can be funny and serious. We either laugh over it or cry over it. But Life itself doesn't care about such reactions. It goes on.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

When I was a kid, my goodness, corporate America was a bunch of stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be serious, and now it's stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be funny.

If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke.

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.

It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.

Funny people don't really laugh very much.

I'm usually not the straight guy. I'm sometimes more the funny guy, depending on the situation.

Domestic violence isn't funny, especially if you live together.

I wanted to be a "serious artist." Serious artists didn't tend to be funny. But that didn't get me a lot of attention. And just growing older, you can't help it, you take things less seriously.

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

There are many different ways of being funny. I'm not sure that there's so many different ways of being dramatic.

Not often is there as much of a vulnerable side as there is a funny side.

You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.

You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous.

If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show chimps.

If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.