Clown Quote by Richard Simmons

I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

— Burgess Meredith

I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

I've spoken seriously, and I am very serious, but you know an awful lot of the work is meant to twist things to the…

— Douglas Huebler

Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all…

— Peter Ustinov

I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension. I am…

— William H. Gass

There is no paradox. There is only irony.

— Philip K. Jason

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.

— Alton Brown

I take my work very seriously, and that's the only way for it to be fun for me.

— Glenn Howerton

I try not to take myself too seriously, but I do take my work seriously.

— Alison Doody

I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.

— Waris Ahluwalia

What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in…

— Gustave Flaubert

I take my work seriously, but it's not the only thing that exists in the world.

— Viggo Mortensen