Serious Quotes

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

If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.

RFID is going to get its technical embedding time it needs as serious players are not going to get involved on a sufficient scale with something that might not work.

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.

Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.

If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.

Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person.

It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.

When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.

I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.

I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.

In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk.

I would have liked it to have stayed serious and have the adventures of a family lost in space. This isn't to take anything away from Jonathan and the Robot. I watch his performance today and he still makes me laugh.

There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.

I thought 'God, what have I done?'... I realized I would be in serious trouble. I thought the best way out of the mess was to make sure she could not tell anybody.

You know, just because you're a blonde type doesn't mean you can't suddenly do serious parts.

I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.

The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.

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

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.

I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.

Leonardo DiCaprio is a very serious young actor.

I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.

I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.

Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.