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At first, like every other actor, I wanted to do characters with deep traits - what we call 'serious characters.'
Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.
Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.
I was going to be a Marine before I was going to be an actor. I was really serious about joining the Marine Corps.
I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.
It raises several serious questions. For example, how can there possibly be more than one person as awesome as me?
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.
Serious music isn't listened to in a casual setting. You don't want to listen to that in headphones on the subway.
I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious.
Just broke up with somebody. Well, it wasn't really a break up, it was a booty call I might have took too serious.
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.
Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.
If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles.
I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.
It's not controversial to say that human activity is contributing in some way. The question is how serious that is.
I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey... serious Jim Carrey though.
I watch Jon Stewart because I need to laugh. Otherwise, life gets too serious. Besides that, I don't watch any news.
I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.
I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have.
I love games, and I'll play any. Games are a way of training ourselves to be heavily involved without being serious.
In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk.
If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.
I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society.
You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better.
When you meet someone, treat them as if they were in serious trouble, and you will be right more than half the time.
Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.
The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.
My philosophy of life is that I am deeply, deeply serious about my work and for the rest I like to have a few laughs.
I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.
If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
I had a serious boyfriend in high school, but we would take breaks in between. You shouldn't always have a boyfriend!
When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.
The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.
If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.
The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change.
If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.
Climate change is happening. It's just not the end of the world. It's not even our most serious environmental problem.
I'm a really stoic artist. I'm serious a lot of times. I can joke and play sometimes, but most of the time, I'm stoic.
Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent.
Mike and I like a balance of tones. We never set out to make an overtly silly show or an overly serious dramatic show.
Sex doesn't sell as well as we thought. If we would not sell the Van Gogh and Co., it would be a very serious problem.
You can't have a healthy economy without sound money, which is why we're on the verge of very serious economic problem.
If you're an addict, if you drink and you're putting a depressant into your body, it's going to cause serious problems.
When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.