A lot of people don't know this, but when 'Dancing with the Stars' first asked me to be on the show, I said no, because I wanted to act and to be taken seriously.
Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.
The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.
The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.
It's important for young women and men coming out of the fashion schools to think seriously before starting their own collections.
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.
In all seriousness, I don't get people who need to make a proposal a bigger deal than marriage already is.
It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.
Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.
I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia.
The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.
When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.
I want to wake dead people to live alive". Seriously, I can make you living.
By and large, I think that comics work seriously hard. Many have other jobs as well, plus you never really switch off, so you're always working.
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.
If you've worked in Australia, you can't get away with bad behaviour like showing up late. We take our work ethic very seriously.
I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.