Themselves Seriously Quotes
- Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide. — Erma Bombeck
- The problem with many athletes is they take themselves seriously and their sport lightly. — Michael Waltrip
- I’m so revolted by writers taking themselves seriously that, as a kind of protest, I’ve deprioritized the role of writing in my life. I do… — Geoff Dyer
- People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics… — Whitfield Diffie
- Many who think that they are taking life seriously are actually only taking themselves seriously. Who takes himself seriously is over conscious of his rights;… — Joseph T. O'Callahan
- There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough.… — Raymond Chandler
- How can you possibly be happy if you think you're a person? Because we all know, just by definition, that people are definitely not happy… — Frederick Lenz
- I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously… — Jonathan Franzen
- When you're doing a comedy and you want to somehow satirise people who are taking themselves seriously, I think the most serious genre is the… — Ben Stiller
- It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously — Oscar Wilde
- Only the insane take themselves seriously. — Max Beerbohm
- Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly. — Rebecca Miller