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You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change.
I have a phobia. I have a serious phobia of rodents. I don't even like white mice, hamsters.
I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.
To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.
Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.
I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.
My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.
When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.
We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.
In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists.
You know, just because you're a blonde type doesn't mean you can't suddenly do serious parts.
I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.
... if we are serious about helping nature, we need to be willing to forego material benefits.
I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.
I'm a really humble person and I'm a really on-the-go person. For me, it's never that serious.
Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow.
Dear Government... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.
You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year.
I never wear very serious suits. I don't have to because I don't go to an office, so it's fine.
Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.
I had my serious side - I idolized Bobby Kennedy; he was my role model. But so was Jerry Lewis.
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
We have an infinite number of reasons to be happy, and a serious responsibility not be serious.
Life is serious, but I do think that God wants us to enjoy the things He's given us, like music.
A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.
I don't mind playing Nazis, but I'll only play them in comedies. I wouldn't play a serious Nazi.
Sports Illustrated is very serious about their covers. They'll never say, like, 'Oh you got it.'
As soon as I hear the word "competition" I get serious and start doing everything that I can do.
I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.
That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.
I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.
Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.
I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.
Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
When the situation is serious, don't be funny; and when the situation is funny, don't be serious!
The pope-and we know this well-is without doubt the most serious obstacle on the ecumenical road.
An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.
Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.
Smiles, like humor, are the most serious and complex forms of communication used by human beings.
I was a very serious child who never got to enjoy life to the fullest like a normal, healthy kid.