I’m very serious. I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.

I commit to most things I do in life, so I don’t really have any serious regrets. But I’ll say this: There are plenty of people that I wish I could un-meet. It’s kind of an L.A. syndrome.

This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?

The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can’t bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.

Just broke up with somebody. Well, it wasn’t really a break up, it was a booty call I might have took too serious.

Serious drama in a significant degree began at Harvard in the 1880s. In 1881, the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play, and shortly afterwards the German and Spanish clubs added their productions.

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame

The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account.

The people of that age were phrase slaves. The abjectness of their servitude is incomprehensible to us. There was a magic in words greater than the conjurer’s art. So befuddled and chaotic were their minds that the utterance of a single word could negative the generalizations of a lifetime of serious research and thought. Such a word was the adjective UTOPIAN. The mere utterance of it could damn any scheme, no matter how sanely conceived, of economic amelioration or regeneration.

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

The old-timer had been very serious in laying down the law that no man must travel alone in the Klondike after fifty below. Well, here he was; he had had the accident; he was alone; and he had saved himself. Those old-timers were rather womanish, some of them, he thought. All a man had to do was to keep his head, and he was all right. Any man who was a man could travel alone.

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that

I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I’m like, ‘What is this?’

Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don’t.

Humor allows us to approach serious topics without fear or judgment.

COVID-19 is a serious public health threat.

My dad and I used to watch ‘Ninja Warrior’ all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, ‘I could do that,’ kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.

Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer – Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson

I think it’s really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It’s such an absurdity to take anything really seriously… I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what’s the story here? Being alive is so weird

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don’t cheat with it.

I’m simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

Astronauts are very professional and when they’re preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

You can’t hit a target you can’t see. You must first become absolutely clear about what you want if you are serious about unlocking the extraordinary power that lies within you.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‘play’ with them!

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it’s starting a new business, entering into a serious relationship, or jumping out of an airplane.

For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

If I could bust out and eat anything… if I ever stop fighting, I could put on some serious weight with sweets.

Nobody’s as serious about health and fitness as me, and staying fit is my top priority.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves.

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

I’m not a serious person, and I don’t like serious people.

And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today’s big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed more people, and congested the streets just as much.

I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It’s unfair. If a man looks solemn, it’s automatically assumed he’s a serious person, not a miserable one.

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I’ve learned so much. I’m happier than I’ve every been.

I want to say it to so many people, ‘why you have to be so serious?’ And I also want people to think ‘this kid has really gone crazy’ when they see my performance on the stage. Luckily, I am able to achieve all of these.

Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

But I try not to think with my gut. If I’m serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.

I still want to be myself, I still want to put my opinions out there or whatever, I just really want people to take my music serious.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

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

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player. The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

It’s going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I’ll risk saying that we’ll be lucky if something really serious doesn’t happen.

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with, and a sense of humor and a complete relaxation, even when you’re discussing serious things, does help to mobilize friends around you. And I love that.

The journey is part of the experience — an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca

The art of living—isn’t that a funny expression?

Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.

Obviously, there’s a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting… I’ve gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world.