Quotes of: Serious Keyword

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 always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

Colin Firth

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

Mark Van Doren

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

Maya Angelou

One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.

Richard Francis Burton

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

Cyndi Lauper

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Don Herold

When you are a real artist who is serious about your craft, you love good music. Period.

Lil' Kim

I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.

Natasha Lyonne

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

Tommy Chong

Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that's because most people there have never seen it get serious.

Dan Farmer

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

Al Yankovic

I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.

Bruce Robinson

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

Jesse Eisenberg

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.

Patton Oswalt

I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.

Diplo

I'd love to be able to do a comedy like 'Dr. Strangelove.' I'm not a very serious person. Really, I'm very silly.

Denis Villeneuve

Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.

Carine Roitfeld

If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms.

Charles J. Shields

I've always felt that 'X-Men' was about something serious. It wasn't just fantasy.

Ian Mckellen

We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

Isaac Bashevis Singer