Take Me Seriously Quotes

#1. I thought people wouldn't take me seriously if too much acting was involved in the singing. But now I love the idea of mixing everything together.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#2. I'm sure a lot of people don't take me seriously.

Lauren Conrad

#3. I don't want to say never, but I hope I don't become that 'take me seriously now' guy.

Trey Parker

#4. I endeavor to be serious and you will not take me seriously

Sherwood Smith

#5. The same way I want them to take me seriously. I want them to look at my music as kind of like an open book to who I am inside.

Kaci Brown

#6. For stage I try to dress down, because I want people to take me seriously.

Marnie Stern

#7. It's something that I think I'm going to have to fight against for most of my career, for people to take me seriously as an actor as opposed to a good-looking guy. It's not what I want to be known as.

Armie Hammer

#8. Another reason why people take me seriously is because I never apologise even when - no, especially when I should,' he told her coolly. 'No pleases, thank yous or sorries - remember that and you might have that interesting year I was talking about.

Sarra Manning

#9. I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.

John Corbett

#10. I never asked anybody to take me seriously.

Jessa Crispin

#11. I like a girl who does not take me seriously, you know? It's important to be able to laugh at each other.

Kit Harington

#12. I know there are, like, 12 rules for late night: a desk, a band. Will people take me seriously if I don't wear a tie?

Jimmy Kimmel

#13. I cry really easily. If I see a butterfly, I'll practically burst into tears. So it's really hard for me to yell at people, because I'll feel so guilty about it. But if I don't, then they don't take me seriously and it's this endless cycle.

Grimes

#14. What I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am.

Michael Haneke

#15. I need to behave in a way that will cause people to take me seriously.

Megan Fox

#16. Take me seriously. Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

Kevin Hart

#17. company we are negotiating against. No one would take me seriously

Magda Alexander

#18. I want people to take me seriously as an artist and to hear that I have something to truly say and to offer.

Darren Fletcher

#19. I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.

Paul McCartney

#20. I keep telling everyone that I want to start a revolution but no one is taking me seriously. If I had black skin and an afro, would you take me seriously? If I was an Arab waving a hand grenade, would you take me seriously?

Madonna Ciccone

#21. I don't want to have to be like a Scarlett Johansson - who I have nothing against - but I don't want to have to go on talk shows and pull out every SAT word I've ever learned to prove, like, 'Take me seriously, I am intelligent, I can speak.'

Megan Fox

#22. Donald Trump refuses to give details about his policy plans. Trump apologized by saying, 'When I announced I was running for president, I had no idea people would take me seriously.'

Conan O'Brien

#23. I don't take myself seriously. Others should take me seriously, I don't.

Ravi Teja

#24. If I wanted people to take me seriously as an adult, I was going to have to swallow a few tongues. Hopefully, without puking.

Jen Ashton

#25. I find it odd that people take me seriously.

Jeremy Paxman

#26. In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Ruzwana Bashir

#27. There's a big part of me that would love to be a secret agent. But if I showed up to do an investigation and interrogate someone now, they wouldn't be able to take me seriously. I've ruined that for myself.

Gillian Anderson

#28. I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.'

Kris Kristofferson

#29. Never give up. The bankers and financial people did not take me seriously initially. Everyone thought I would fail. My attitude was that 'No' is an unacceptable answer when it comes to financing.

Debbi Fields

#30. I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.

Samuel Larsen

#31. If people would take me seriously, I'd never find out anything significant about them.

Aleksandra Ninkovic

#32. The nicest thing you did was to take me seriously when a lot of people wouldn't have, but not too seriously, which was just right.

Katharine Graham

#33. A part of me still says, 'Maybe, Denzel, you're supposed to preach. Maybe you're still compromising.' I've had an opportunity to play great men and, through their words, to preach. I take what talent I've been given seriously, and I want to use it for good.

Denzel Washington

#34. Hopefully people will take me more seriously as an actress. That's what I really want to do, it's my passion and it's what I want to be considered to do. I just want to continue to do film, it's what I love.

Miley Cyrus

#35. I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.

Victoria Beckham

#36. I don't take myself too seriously! That makes me happy.

Dalai Lama

#37. I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

Chris Bauer

#38. Thank you 'adults who wear back packs' for letting me know that I don't have to take you seriously

Jimmy Fallon

#39. To me the early childhood story is an ecumenical one. You take poverty seriously. You take seriously maternal depression. You take seriously children under stress and you take seriously the effects of extended hours participation in poor quality care. Those are the facts I begin with.

Robert Manne

#40. Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it's better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it's hard to keep going.

Dianna Agron

#41. The idea is that we're doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time.

Lauren Ambrose

#42. Never hit a man with a closed fist," he told her. He could feel her pulse.
"Why? Because it gives you an excuse to manhandle me?"
He let go. "Slap his face instead."
"Ha."
"It will make him take you less seriously, and then he won't be expecting it when you knee him in the groin.

Courtney Milan

#43. To me a lot of electronic music out there is too serious. I'm a bit fed up with DJs who take themselves too seriously and don't smile.

Pedro Winter

#44. I'm pretty, for lack of a better word, happy-go-lucky. I take things very seriously, but I'm very aware of people around me. I like to be part of a group that's working together towards something positive.

Kyle MacLachlan

#45. I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

Luke Ford

#46. I'm kind of a disciplined person but I don't take anything too seriously. And I think a lot of that had to do with the raising my parents gave me and my sister - Veronica Cartwright, who's an actress in her own right.

Angela Cartwright

#47. When you say you love me, it doesn't matter.
It goes into my head as just chit-chatter.
You may think it's egotistical or just worry-free,
But what you say, I take none of it seriously.

MC Lyte

#48. Seriously, though, in this day and age I don't know why we're still cutting open frogs to see what's inside them.
If somebody tells me there's a heart and intestines inside a grog, I'm willing to take their word for it.

Jeff Kinney

#49. I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

Lloyd Banks

#50. People sometimes actually get me to think I take things too seriously and maybe I'm too earnest and it's coming across like I'm better than them.

Kristen Stewart

#51. ..i'd like to take my professional life, my career, my writing, my family and my friends seriously, but please, please protect me from ever taking myself too seriously.... Seumas

Seumas Gallacher

#52. I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Douglas Adams

#53. I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.

Mordecai Richler

#54. It's sad that because I have one friend who is in the public eye, just being seen out together once means we're romantically involved. But I don't take it seriously, and it doesn't really affect me much.

Dylan Penn

#55. Freddie Mercury taught me 3 thingsdon't take anything too seriously, have fun and always fly first class.

Roy Thomas Baker

#56. The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.

Garth Ennis

#57. Sense of humor. A girl who doesn't take themselves too seriously. And someone who is spontaneous. They're the three things for me that really attract me to a girl.

Christopher Egan

#58. I was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take it seriously! I was a zealot who irritated every one of my third-grade friends. They didn't beat me up, but I got labeled "the preacher girl."

Oprah Winfrey

#59. ...I'm trying to tell ya something bout my life,,maybe give me insight between black and white,,and the best thing you'd ever done for me is to help me take my life less seriously--it's only LIFE afterall...

Indigo Girls

#60. When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

Takeshi Kitano

#61. If you can make me laugh, my heart is yours! I think there's nothing more attractive than someone who doesn't take themselves too seriously.

Shay Mitchell

#62. A cupcake is like a great pop song. The whole world in less than three minutes. And it's impossible to have a bad cupcake. In New York you walk everywhere. So I'm always looking, always on the eternal search for the perfect cupcake. I take them very seriously. It's like hunting and gathering for me.

Laurel Nakadate

#63. I know that some actors take acting terribly seriously. I take it seriously in that if someone pays me to do it I know I have to deliver.

David Warner

#64. At last someone takes me seriously.

Jeremy Paxman

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

Glenn Howerton

#66. The older you get, the less seriously you take criticism. I've gotten to a point now where I ignore it completely. It's just not relevant to me anymore.

George Lucas

#67. 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.

Angelina Jolie

#68. I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I think that it is important as writers of metaphysical, New Age, occult fiction and nonfiction to not take ourselves too seriously.

Frederick Lenz

#69. Most Americans take their freedom very seriously, but they don't realize that not everyone is free. The repressed are not free to do what they want. That's what 'Star-Crossed' was all about for me.

Johnathon Schaech

#70. It's a responsibility that I take most seriously, so excuse me for banning you from killing them because you have reverse PMS. (Acheron)
Reverse PMS? (Artemis)
Yeah, unlike a normal woman, you're cranky twenty-eight days out of the month. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#71. It's okay to take yourself too seriously if you're a serious actor and you've got the scrubs on. And then with me, it's kind of like, well, I'm a comedian, I'm making fun of everybody and everything. And I'm making fun of myself. I'm having fun making fun of and for other people.

T. J. Miller

#72. Make me the father, O Lord, who will show my sons enough of a sense of humor, so that they will always be serious, but never take themselves too seriously. Give them humility, so they will always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.

Thom S. Rainer

#73. Someone asked me what the key to being a good frontman was, and I think having a sense of humor about it is pretty near the top of that list. It's a very strange place to be in, and I don't take that role too seriously.

Alex Turner

#74. It's a matter of the heart ... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my students very seriously. Harvard should have a bona fide commitment to me.

Margaret Geller

#75. I don't think you're heartless, Mitchell. I just think you're different from me. I take certain things seriously - like marriage and sex and... and tradition. I know you don't. That's fine. You don't have to. But I hope you understand that I do.

Noelle Adams

#76. You can take me to the shittiest restaurant or bar and I'll seriously be happy if I can sit at a booth. I don't even have to drink. Sitting is one of life's most underrated pleasures.

Karina Halle

#77. I recognize myself for part of this mad world, I suppose. You wouldn't have me take it seriously? I should lose my reason utterly if I did;

Rafael Sabatini

#78. I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.

Kate Bosworth

#79. I had a very pleasant three years at Yale. I must say I did take it seriously, and consequently it took me a while to get over it.

Will Davis Campbell

#80. I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.

Mira Sorvino

#81. I've really turned a corner recently in terms of not taking work too seriously, so it is much easier for me to not take my work home.

Julia Stiles

#82. No one, it seems to me, who has fully grasped the Crucifixion can ever again take seriously any expression or instrument of worldly power, however venerable, glittering, or seemingly formidable. MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

Brennan Manning

#83. And it's special meaning for me was this: It is proof that sometime back when my father was a young, young man, he must have had a moment or two when he felt that he might have reason to take himself and his life seriously.

Kurt Vonnegut

#84. I have come to realize my need to take the New Testament witness seriously that groaning and grief and feeling broken are legitimate ways for me to express my cross-bearing discipleship to Jesus. It's not as if groaning means I am somehow doing something wrong. Groaning is a sign of my fidelity.

Wesley Hill

#85. Women take clothing much more seriously than men. I've never seen a man walk into a party and say Oh, my God, I'm so embarrassed; get me out of here. There's another man wearing a black tuxedo.

Rita Rudner

#86. Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.

Nicole Richie

#87. Kim sat up. "You all sound like you don't take this seriously, like you don't want me to get Brian free. Brian's mother is barely holding it together. You and Sean had to do the comforting sandwich with her, remember?

Jennifer Ashley

#88. When people say crazy stuff about me or my family, I don't take it seriously.

Chelsea Clinton

#89. It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously.

Harrison Ford

#90. Laugh at yourself - a lot. My mum taught me not to take myself too seriously.

Michelle Dockery

#91. You can't help but feel the energy of the audience - and if you feel they hate you that feels weird and dirty. But I would never want to take it too seriously. It's understandable that you're not going to be everyone's cup of tea. I think that's helped me survive.

Charlyne Yi

#92. A lot of people don't know that I'm really a silly guy. I don't take anything seriously. It takes a lot of energy for me to take something seriously.

Evan Peters

#93. I don't care what reviewers think. If somebody hates a performance of mine, I kind of get a kick out of it. It amuses me when critics take something so irrelevant as a movie so seriously.

Stephen Baldwin

#94. I try not to apologize, especially publicly. That's a slippery slope, because I'm a comedian. If you take anything I'm saying too seriously, then you shouldn't be paying attention in the first place. If you find me offensive, don't follow me.

Chelsea Handler

#95. If he was able to help me save my sister, I'd not only take him up on his date offer. I'd pay for everything and seriously consider putting out.

Jeaniene Frost

#96. Three things no one has ever said about me:
You make it look so easy.
You are very mysterious.
You need to take yourself more seriously.

Jenny Offill

#97. One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don't matter too much too seriously. I feel that very little offends me anymore and I'm really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid.

Anna Faris

#98. I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.

Ellen Barkin

#99. I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.

Dolly Parton

#100. I do work too hard sometimes, but my mom is such an inspiration. She tells me to 'chill out' and not take things so seriously. She will say: 'Go and have a massage.'

Josh Peck