Serious famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.
-- A. Edward Newton -
By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.
-- A. Scott Berg -
This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.
-- Abhisit Vejjajiva -
I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.
-- Adam Carolla -
Hey, I'm serious here? Why do you have to ask me how many hits I have?
-- Adam Dunn -
Long gone are the days of the stylised old James Bond films with Roger Moore karate chopping his way through the bad guys - audiences are not going to buy it anymore. The genre has got quite serious now.
-- Adam Rayner -
Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing the awful, uncomfortable truth: that we must act boldly, decisively, comprehensively, and quickly, even before we know every last detail about the crisis. Those who continue to argue that the appropriate response is merely additional research are simply seeking to camouflage timidity or protect their vested interest in the status quo.
-- Al Gore -
This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.
-- Al Gore -
When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
-- Al Pacino -
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
-- Alan Kay -
I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
-- Alan Rickman -
Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
-- Alan Watts -
The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one root-idea of a complete conversion of social power into State power.
-- Albert J. Nock -
I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.
-- Albert Oehlen -
A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
-- Alexander Pope -
There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.
-- Alexandra David-Neel -
The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli -
The less serious running of any description which an athlete indulges in before eighteen, the better for his future prospects.
-- Alfred Shrubb -
If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.
-- Ali MacGraw -
Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.
-- Alice Hamilton -
Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life.
-- Allen Leech -
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
-- Allen Tate -
The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.
-- Allyson Schwartz -
I did theater before I got into TV and everything I did was serious, so it was definitely fun for me to pull out those chops, I definitely wanted to do a movie that just wasn't comedy.
-- Amanda Bynes -
I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon.
-- Amanda Bynes -
To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate the cultural strength of African peoples.
-- Amilcar Cabral -
I've become a much more serious young insect.
-- Andrew Denton -
Many, many large cities have old, crumbling infrastructure that have got to be dealt with in the nearest future, or they're going to be in serious trouble. They'll be unlivable if they don't do something.
-- Andrew Natsios -
I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.
-- Andrew Scott -
I don't think anyone in their right mind takes me serious.
-- Andy Roddick -
I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.
-- Andy Rooney -
My most serious character flaw is that I don't deny myself much.
-- Andy Rooney -
Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
-- Angela Davis -
To be serious, if we were only interested in earning big money then a politician would have to go and work in industry.
-- Angela Merkel -
I am hopeful that others who have suffered sexual harassment will not become discouraged by my experience, but instead will find the strength to speak out about this serious problem.
-- Anita Hill -
I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.
-- Ann Beattie -
How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up?" Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. "That's what you're doing anyway, my dear.
-- Ann Brashares -
I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.
-- Anne Rivers Siddons -
It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.
-- Anthony Burgess -
On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough.
-- Anthony Powell -
The most serious disorders may be provoked by the injection of living organisms into the bloodinto a medium not intended for them may provoke redoubtable manifestations of the gravest morbid phenomena.
-- Antoine Bechamp -
What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.
-- Anton Chekhov -
I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.
-- Antonio Banderas -
Very serious mistakes were made by previous governments, and Greece was ready to be abandoned by its partners and to leave the eurozone, which would have created total catastrophe.
-- Antonis Samaras -
If there is anything serious enough to make a difference in my ife, I will talk about it.
-- Anushka Sharma -
There is a lot of relief for daters who are serious about wanting to be in a relationship. This comes in the form of what appears to be dramatic changes like speed dating and Internet dating.
-- April Masini -
Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process.
-- Arian Foster -
Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs are serious. And I said Right.
-- Arlo Guthrie -
I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.
-- Arthur Miller -
Civil marriage is a very serious problem. I think that even the religious understands that we must look for some kind of a solution because we have some contradictions. . I'm sure there are many solutions.
-- Avigdor Lieberman -
I'd just like to say that I have a personal disgust for small dogs, like poodles. I have some serious physical problems with them. Everything about them means I must kill them. I must.
-- Axl Rose -
It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen.
-- Ayrton Senna -
Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.
-- Barack Obama -
Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.
-- Barbara Mikulski -
And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
-- Barney Frank -
Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness … The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.
-- Becky Stark -
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
-- Bela Lugosi -
Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system.
-- Ben Bernanke -
Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.
-- Ben Nicholson -
If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
-- Benjamin Haydon -
Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.
-- Bennie Thompson -
If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.
-- Berkeley Breathed -
I didn't know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid.
-- Bill Cosby -
I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.
-- Bill Murray -
What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002.
-- Bill Vaughan -
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup -
If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.
-- Bob Balaban -
Life is just a bowl of cherries, don't take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love.
-- Bob Fosse -
Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.
-- Bob Hoskins -
It's not controversial to say that human activity is contributing in some way. The question is how serious that is.
-- Bobby Jindal -
I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.
-- Bono -
Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.
-- Brad Paisley -
When I was 17, my producer Rodney Jerkins was working with Michael Jackson at the time. He knew how much I wanted to meet Michael Jackson, so he says, 'Would you like to come and meet him?' I'm like, 'Are you serious? Of course I want to meet Michael Jackson! Where do I meet you? Where do we come?
-- Brandy Norwood -
We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.
-- Brenda Ueland -
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.
-- Brigham Young -
It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.
-- Brit Hume -
The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en mass, or for making overtures towards more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.
-- Brooks Atkinson -
I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy.
-- Bruce Greenwood -
The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.
-- Bruce Lee -
Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.
-- Bryan Clay -
One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.
-- Bryan White -
It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.
-- C. S. Lewis -
and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.
-- C. S. Lewis -
It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
-- Calvin Trillin -
Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.
-- Carine Roitfeld -
He knows I'm brutal. He's knows I can punch hard. He knows if I connect on his chin, at any one moment, 12 three minute rounds, he's going to be in serious trouble. If he's not on the floor, his legs will do a funny dance.
-- Carl Froch
