Being Serious Quotes
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.
— Cher
Do you know what that means?" "They have three fewer ships?" Parks deadpanned. "Stop being an asshole, captain, I'm serious.
— Todd Shryock
When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.
— Moby
Sir James Jeans
Always says what he means
He is really perfectly serious
About the Universe being Mysterious. — E.C. Bentley
Always says what he means
He is really perfectly serious
About the Universe being Mysterious. — E.C. Bentley
I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.
— John Lithgow
Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
— Oscar Wilde
Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
— Manny Pacquiao
Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.
— Dee Dee Ramone
If someone offers to take your burden, you need to know he is serious, not just being polite and kind. Polite and kind do not last.
— Amy Tan
You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better.
— David Ortiz
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers.
The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question. — Peter F. Drucker
The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question. — Peter F. Drucker
I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.
— Alice Eve
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.
— Brigham Young
People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
— Patrick Dempsey
I realised that I really disliked him, and I knew exactly why: he didn't know the difference between being solemn and being serious.
— John Cleese
If you study a lot because you are worried that others will think badly of you for being ignorant and you'll feel stupid, this is a serious mistake.
— Dogen
I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
— Twyla Tharp
Taking risks is not being suicidal. Otherwise, skydivers need serious help.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit.
— Jaggi Vasudev
I never thought I would end up being an actress. I thought I really was going to do serious stuff like law or politics.
— Rebel Wilson
Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
For a thinking person, the most serious mental illness is not being sure of who you are.
— Benoit B. Mandelbrot
What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere.
— John Quincy Adams
It's human nature to view life from our own reality.
This causes serious problems when a rescue mission is being led by the senile or insane. — Jaime Buckley
This causes serious problems when a rescue mission is being led by the senile or insane. — Jaime Buckley
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious
— Peter Ustinov
What is the world's problem? The world is still believing the old childish stories! That is the problem! Grow up, world, grow up! Be a bit serious!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.
— Joel Hodgson
Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.
— Robert Genn
I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.
— David Shrigley
(On "Following") We've got a pretty serious claim on being the cheapest film ever made.
— Christopher J. Nolan
A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.
— Robert Breault
People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
— Olivier Megaton
I'm serious about the music, but I'm not serious about the fantasy. It's no big deal being on TV!
— Marc Bolan
Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.
— Robert Crais
Me and Schopenhauer. Sometimes being German seems to come with some serious disadvantages.
— Philip Kerr
Getting rewarded for being pregnant when you're a teenager? Are you serious? I mean, that makes me want to kill somebody.
— Chelsea Handler
Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.
— Lily Tomlin
To mind being disliked by a woman you don't desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.
— Wendell Berry
The guy behind the counter scratches his neck. "Are you being serious?" Her face is stoic. "Absolutely. I never kid about teddy bears.
— Jessica Sorensen
Your problem is a serious lack of imagination. You can't imagine being different than you are.
— Linda Morris
I do have this reputation for being a serious person.
— Joni Mitchell
When are people finally going to get serious about being serious?
— Leonard Ravenhill
We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.
— Joseph Addison
I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.
— Anne Rivers Siddons
I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates
— Jean-Claude Juncker
I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.
— Elliott Erwitt
Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.
— John Cleese
I am a serious businesswoman. I don't enjoy being out there on TV; it's not what I do well. But I love building companies; I love making products.
— Jennifer Flavin
Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.
— Paris Hilton
The sight of so many agitated and serious people made Margaret smile, but she reflected that they were paid to be serious, and enjoyed being agitated.
— E. M. Forster
The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.
— Lin Yutang
She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it.
— Graham Greene
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
— Werner Herzog
Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
— Patricia Marx
I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.
— Bruce Robinson
One aspect of politics too little acknowledged is that besides being jolly serious and all that, it is also a hugely enjoyable game for boys.
— Andrew Marr
The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA.
— Sam Kean