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I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset. — Mike Birbiglia

You have to be serious-minded in business, but not take yourself seriously. — Diego Della Valle

He was a quiet man, not lonely and not shy, but cerebral and serious. — John Grisham

You saw his actions," Bow says, "but not his heart."
Is she serious? "Actions reveal heart."
"Not always. Deception is all about perception. — Gena Showalter

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man. — Leigh Hunt

Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation. — Robert M. Pirsig

The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable. — Wolfgang Pauli

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force. — Gloria Steinem

My mother has always been a worker bee, but she's also a serious foodie. — Isabel Gillies

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. — Benjamin Franklin

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin. — Vladimir Lenin

Islam has no problem with women, but Muslims do clearly appear to have serious problems with them — Tariq Ramadan

The life is an adventure. Is exciting and terrifying. From time to time can be a little bored but should never be serious. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that duality. — Lisa Loomer

I assume that maybe you are not serious, but sincere. — Alan W. Watts

The situation is desperate," runs an old Viennese saying, "but not serious. — Jan Swafford

The development agenda is not a straightforward one; it's a process with serious hurdles, but it's a path we've chosen to go down. — Augustin Matata Ponyo

I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion. — Jeanloup Sieff

He looked at me with serious eyes, but not the kind that made me wonder what I'd done wrong. The kind that made me wonder what I'd done right. — Denise Jaden

We thought green was cheerful, but not too cheerful. Green was also serious. — Jeffrey Eugenides

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

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them. — Oscar Wilde

Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous. — Criss Jami

I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown. — Rose Byrne

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula. — Yahoo Serious

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle. — Adam Sandler

I always wanted to act, but never thought of it as something serious to do. — John Cullum

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

I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it. — Jody Hill

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies. — George Smoot

My residence was more favorable, not only to thought, but to serious reading, than a university; — Henry David Thoreau

I'm weird. But I'm a pretty serious person. — Andrew Mason

I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The sky is so dark' - but comedy lives in specifics. — Rachel Bloom

Cancer Is an opportunity to sit down and look into yourself and find the answers. Yes, it's serious, but it's not the end-all. — Melissa Etheridge

I'm very serious about what I do. I practice every day for three hours. I work on my scales; I work on my tone. But otherwise, I like to have fun. — Kenny G

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

I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun. — Ruby Wax

Life after death, it seems, can be a serious distraction not only from the ultimate life after life after death, but also from life before death. — N. T. Wright

I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy. — Bruce Greenwood

The secret of life is to see everything with a non-serious eye, but to be absolutely involved. It's like a game. — Sadghuru

Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one. — Matthew Henry

It's fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh. — Betty White

I never took the work less than serious, my work ethic is ingrained in me. But I've always had a sense of humor about myself. — George Hamilton

Dying is nothing, but pain
is a very serious matter. — Henry Jacob Bigelow

I live in a small town, a town without much serious crime, but I'll tell you there are days when I see enough mean-spirited ugliness to ruin my lunch. — Toni Dwiggins

There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself. — Maurice Baring

Onew hyung usually smiles a lot but when he's serious, I can't stop laughing. — Lee Taemin

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave. — George Washington

But those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Serious and intense people, they drain you. But someone who's an idiot, like myself, they're fun. You either hate me or you love me. — Pauly Shore

I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take. — Helena Christensen

People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head. — Jimmy Carter

Bedroom games. That's all it is. But they're serious, and when played right, everyone wins." He — C.D. Reiss

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food. — Lin Yutang

The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke. — George Harrison

The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower. — Jack Kemp

Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones. — Harrison Ford

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. — Iris Murdoch

Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading. — Stephen D. Krashen

I want to do comedy films, serious films - I admire the actors who fly under the radar but get loads done, pop up in a lot of good films. — Craig Roberts

Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption. — Confucius

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway. — Jose Gonzalez

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. — Joseph Wood Krutch

I'm a really stoic artist. I'm serious a lot of times. I can joke and play sometimes, but most of the time, I'm stoic. — LeCrae

A lot of people say I am serious, but I don't think I am. — Claudia Schiffer

They but appear a solemn People, - worshipping Laughter, rather, as a serious, indeed holy, Force in Nature, never to be invok'd idly. — Thomas Pynchon

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.' — Madeleine Albright

Fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But very little. After all, if you have a serious drama, who cares about the clothes? — Miuccia Prada

People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films. — Kapil Sharma

When you come to actually act, it's a game. It may be a very serious game, but it's still a game. If you lose that sense of play, the work suffers. — Michael Sheen

Chloe has always had a serious effect on my heart, but lately . . . she's stolen pieces of it, bit by bit. Or maybe she's had them all along. — K.K. Allen

But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. — Betsy Lerner

One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few. — Theognis Of Megara

There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it. — Dietrich Von Hildebrand

A slightly uncommon condition of the some-long-word. Nothing at all serious, but it just needs putting right. A simple treatment. — Agatha Christie

[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real. — Sigmund Freud

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun. — Mitt Romney

Blondes in black jeans have always been a serious problem for me. But I'm not exactly looking for a solution. — Daniel Cubias

I'm good at keeping secrets, but if it's not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I'll tell someone else. — Steven Yeun

I still fly a lot in my dreams, she told us, but I try to stay close to the ground. At my age, a fall can be pretty serious. — Brian Andreas

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours
ambition is the serious business of life. — Walter Scott

So it's all right for him to rule out a serious relationship, but it's wrong if I'm not ready to settle for less? — Daria Snadowsky

My father who was always serious has fallen in love with a dog. What can I do but be happy for him? — Michael Simms

Hodgkin's is serious and I don't want to be dismissive about it, but there are people who have gone through much worse and lost their lives to cancer. — Delta Goodrem

Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me. — Steve Buscemi

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

A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise. — George Orwell

Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth. — William Carlos Williams

But ya have to make videos in the States. Usually ours just look too serious. We haven't got it together. — Evan Dando

James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means. — Harold Holzer

Ivy turned. 'He bit you on the neck?' she said, deadpan serious but for her eyes. 'Oh, then it's got to be love. She won't let me bite her neck. — Kim Harrison

I went out with people, but never anything too serious. It wasn't that easy. Now it's something I'm really looking forward to. — Rupert Grint

2Ever since they were still linked by a serious affection, but without the disorder of love, — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse. — Frank Zappa

At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious. — Saina Nehwal

To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets. — Ovid

I think I don't take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it's a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun. — Bruno Mars

There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth. — John Osborne

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart. — Robert Fulghum