Serious Quotes · Page 26

If you are serious about your work, honest and straight-forward, you are labelled eccentric.

— Nana Patekar

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

— Tim Bishop

I've grown up watching 'BQC' and 'KBC' and that's really serious stuff.

— Varun Sharma

When you have 8,000 veterans a year committing suicide, then you have a serious problem.

— Johnny Isakson

I think it's in a way my tragedy that people don't see me for the serious roles I have played.

— Deepti Naval

If you want to be taken seriously, you almost have to act really serious.

— D.A. Wallach

If God created everything, he's got a serious quality control problem.

— George Carlin

At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.

— David Nicholls

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be…

— Eminem

Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions…

— Robert Crais

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

— Josiah Strong

If you're serious about what you're doing, you've got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you won't reach the…

— Jonny Lee Miller

There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious…

— Yayoi Kusama

Humor is his defense mechanism, so that would allow me to talk about some serious subjects, but get a lot of hilarious…

— Judd Apatow

If you're a serious actor, you wouldn't put yourself up for one of those shows in case you got bumped off the…

— Elaine Paige

Losing a part of a breast or all of one or both has, obviously, serious psychological consequences.

— Molly Ivins

Give peace a chance, yes, but why not get serious and give it a place in the curriculum: peace courses in every…

— Colman McCarthy

Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted…

— Anonymous

I support charters, but the right kind of charters. I support charters that support kids who have the highest needs. A charter…

— Diane Ravitch

So if God should place me in serious perplexity, must He not give me much guidance; in places of great difficulty, much…

— Hudson Taylor

A couple degrees warmer would be good for humanity and planet, especially with more plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide in the air. [...] But…

— Paul Driessen

Always praise your kid even if he/she is unresponsive to learning. By insulting them and putting them down, you will only push…

— Suzy Kassem

I can't see the Democrats working with Donald Trump on tax reform unless the rich get soaked. The thing about this that…

— Rush Limbaugh

The idea of doing a children's film is different, but quite honestly I like doing anything - any genre. I've only made…

— John Landis

You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year.

— Neil Abercrombie

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.

— Jonny Lang

A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.

— Kurt Schwitters

To succeed at the level I want to you have to be focused and serious.

— Kent Steffes

I don't really like something serious depicted in a serious way; that's not my style.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

I think the presidency is much too serious a thing to just play politics with.

— Chris Christie

Hey, I'm serious here? Why do you have to ask me how many hits I have?

— Adam Dunn

I'm a very serious person. Unfortunately, sometimes.

— Zoe Kazan

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death.

— Russell Brand

My favorite people to have fun with are police officers 'cause they're so serious, you know.

— Gabriel Iglesias

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

— Rose Byrne

Only a real asshole takes liberties with someone else's car stereo. That's serious.

— Sarah Dessen

'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

— Andrew Scott

The United States faces no serious military threats today, yet is constantly at war.

— Doug Bandow

Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.

— Jim Sensenbrenner

If I'm a little girl, then that makes you a serious pervert.

— Karen Marie Moning