The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'

Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not.

If you're shooting a really serious, dramatic scene, personally I wouldn't want to look at the camera.

I've developed several serious policy proposals to create jobs, reform Washington and reduce spending.

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.

If you were shopping for a father, you'd have to take out a serious loan to afford mine. He's the best.

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

Everyone in my family was a very serious worker, always with a determination to provide for each other.

Basically, I was a very serious film fan. I watched a lot of cinema and contemporary and European film.

If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

[Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation.

We have a situation where the security of America is at stake, and it's a very, very serious situation.

I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce.

Hillary Clinton's guilty of a very, very serious crime. She should not be allowed to run for president.

Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.

I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun.

I think chess players are not always what you think them to be. Or maybe it's our job to appear serious.

No doubt, the fight against ISIS is deadly serious, as was the raid that took down their elusive leader.

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

Most of us have faced a - faced a serious budget problem or another at some pivotal moment in our lives.

People - just weird people are attracted to Miami. And they come there not for serious reasons, usually.

I have a sense of humor. I usually come off as very serious, but I definitely have a dry sense of humor.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

I've always been serious about music. After you've done it for so many years, you get back to the basics.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

When the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it.

Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.

But ya have to make videos in the States. Usually ours just look too serious. We haven't got it together.

When I began to rap, I wasn't taking it real serious. As I start seeing good things, it's getting serious.

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.

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

If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

I don't know what happiness is. I don't know what sweet caress is. Still, I'm always laughing like a clown.

Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men.

Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast.

On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.

If we listen to the better angels of our nature, there are creative and good solutions to serious problems.

If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.

If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke.

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