Top 100 Too Serious Quotes
#1. I'm very fun; I like to have fun, and I don't like to take life too serious, so of course everybody saw me as the outgoing fun one and the crazy one.
Kendra Wilkinson
#2. If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.
Norm MacDonald
#3. Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?
Don DeLillo
#4. I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun.
Ruby Wax
#5. I'm a serious person by nature - sometimes too serious.
Peyton Manning
#6. Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.
Javier Bardem
#7. 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
#8. I've never really taken myself too serious. That's everybody else, listening to the music or whatever. I've always said what I've felt, said what I thought was right, but I've always had a comedic bone.
Ice Cube
#9. I watched my brother watch the world, his sharp, too-serious brow furrowing down in both angst and wonder. Everywhere we looked, we saw the people trying to dream themselves out. As though there was someplace other than this place. As though there was another Brooklyn.
Jacqueline Woodson
#10. As a leader he was much too serious by half, a trait she'd seen diminish even the best leaders' abilities.
K.F. Breene
#11. Beware the humorless. People who are all too serious are missing a key aspect of intelligence, which is perspective!
Catherine Carrigan
#12. 'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.
Artie Lange
#13. There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top.
Shia Labeouf
#14. Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
Will Rogers
#15. A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.
Joel Hodgson
#16. Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.
Hannah Arendt
#17. Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.
Tony Blair
#18. Need to go chase the wind for a while, you are too serious.
Patrick Rothfuss
#19. Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD.
Drake
#20. I don't think any movie I would do would be too serious or serious at all.
Mike Judge
#22. If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
Earl King
#23. I don't ever want an acting to be a job. I want this to be an outlet for my creativity, and something I just simply enjoy doing. I don't ever want it to become something too serious.
Liana Liberato
#24. For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.
Moses Mendelssohn
#25. The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too serious.
Frank Zappa
#26. If you're too serious to make life a laughing matter, then you seriously need to make laughter matter to you today and every day!
Jeannine M. Luby
#27. I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.
[Writer's Digest Interview (Robert Jacobs, Writer's Digest, February 1976)]
Ray Bradbury
#28. Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.
Eric Hoffer
#29. If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
Larry Wall
#30. In the '80s, everything became too serious.
Elsa Peretti
#32. Don't take life TOO serious you can't get out alive anyhow.
Hank Williams
#33. The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut
#34. People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.
Tom Robbins
#35. Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.
Cyndi Lauper
#36. When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation.
Matthew Perry
#37. Our relationship was too serious to forget and move on, and too casual to get upset over him fucking his ...
C.D. Reiss
#38. Cancer is WAY too serious to be taken seriously all the time.
Tanya Masse
#39. I am not too serious about anything. I believe you have to enjoy yourself to get the most out of your ability. I can take the criticism with the accolades. Neither affects me.
George Brett
#40. Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.
Woodrow Wilson
#41. I watch Jon Stewart because I need to laugh. Otherwise, life gets too serious. Besides that, I don't watch any news.
Bruce Lipton
#43. I think the presidency is much too serious a thing to just play politics with.
Chris Christie
#44. When it comes to exercise, I don't like anything that's too serious.
Lindsay Ellingson
#45. So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
Will Rogers
#46. But ya have to make videos in the States. Usually ours just look too serious. We haven't got it together.
Evan Dando
#48. I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.
Syd Barrett
#49. I'm just an actor. If it's drama, I add as much humour as the part will stand. And if it's a comedy, add as much drama as you can, so it balances out; you don't wanna be too serious.
Michael Pena
#50. You'll be okay, Eila. You are stronger than you think," he said, a tad too serious. I nodded drunkenly. "I am still worried though, about a concussion. You look a bit unstable." I bet I did.
K.R. Conway
#52. Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.
Carine Roitfeld
#53. You watch the interview afterwards, and they didn't really say much, but it's interesting, funny, and engaging. Whereas I sit there and look a little bit too serious, and as soon as that happens then you're uncomfortable and you don't want to watch.
Kristen Stewart
#55. The players are too serious. They don't have any fun any more. They come to camp with a financial adviser and they read the stock market page before the sports pages. They concern themselves with statistics rather than simply playing the game and enjoying it for what it is.
Rocky Bridges
#56. Because Life is too Serious to be Taken Seriously.
Anonymous
#57. Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don't be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don't pretend to be a thinker, a philosopher. Just simply be a human being. The whole world is showering its joy on you in so many ways, but you are too serious, you cannot open your heart.
Osho
#59. Just broke up with somebody. Well, it wasn't really a break up, it was a booty call I might have took too serious.
J. B. Smoove
#60. Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.
Bernie Sanders
#61. Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
Charles Kennedy
#62. I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles De Gaulle
#63. That's what happens when people get too serious. Feelings get hurt. Hearts get broken. Some people never learn. Don't get serious. It's my number one rule.
Amy Plum
#64. This is important stuff, so it's crucial not to get too serious, to realize that this is all fun and games. The attitude 'business is serious, it's not fun and games' leads to financial failure, and I won't tolerate it in my company.
Martha N. Beck
#65. I'm almost never serious, and I'm always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I'm like a collection of paradoxes.
Ferdinand De Saussure
#66. Very few conversations with Charles Dickens did not include a laugh from him. I had never met a man so given to laughter. Almost no moment or context was too serious for this author not to find some levity in it, as some of us had discovered to our embarrassment at funerals.
Dan Simmons
#67. I went out with people, but never anything too serious. It wasn't that easy. Now it's something I'm really looking forward to.
Rupert Grint
#68. A lot of action characters are a little bit too serious as well. They take themselves a bit too seriously, which I don't find particularly interesting, whereas I like the fact that there was at least some humor in this because really it's a piece of entertainment.
Guy Pearce
#69. Ain't nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.
Nancy B. Brewer
#71. You're way too serious for your own good. I personally think you suffer from middle-child syndrome. You know, you're filled with insecurities and phobias, and you have this need to constantly prove yourself.
Julie Garwood
#72. Once Now You See Me proved that that tone could work, which I'm sure was a nightmare for them in post - is this too serious? Do we have to say that magic really does exist or not? - I can take that and have fun with the tone that they established.
Daniel Radcliffe
#73. A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
Charles Lamb
#74. Gossip was usually a mindless distraction from a far too serious world.
Dianne Sylvan
#75. The key for me is really just to stay in a child-like state in the rehearsal studio. I'm really goofy and really silly and crazy. If I get too serious, I start hitting a wall.
Derek Hough
#76. I see a lot of homes that are supercool, and everything is very tasteful, but it's not warm. I'm really scared of rooms that look too serious.
Amanda Peet
#77. The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.
Lin Yutang
#78. I did what I have been told to do by my queen. In so doing, I fell into a trap I couldn't escape. I still can't."
"The trap of LUUUUVVVV, I thought sarcastically. But he was too serious, too calm, to mock.
Charlaine Harris
#80. A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare.
Robert Payne
#81. My family was too serious. They didn't take care of me - it was a very serious and severe life. Not severe in a bad way; just boring - like totally neutral. I felt no emotion.
Miuccia Prada
#82. London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
Oscar Wilde
#83. Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing.
Elizabeth Warren
#84. They laughed too, even Rose Dear shook her head and smiled, and suddenly the world was right side up. Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears.
Toni Morrison
#85. For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.
Carl Jung
#86. I think one of the serious breakdowns in modern evangelism is this: it has offered too much for too little. What we do mostly is offer forgiveness. We need cleansing! There is no true conversion until a man takes up his cross.
Leonard Ravenhill
#87. Always laugh when mediocre minds makes fun of you, for in your grieve, the ridicule is having an effect
Michael Bassey Johnson
#88. I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.
Eli Whitney
#89. We thought green was cheerful, but not too cheerful. Green was also serious.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#90. I'm very, very serious - I'm serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.
Maya Angelou
#91. Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#92. I have some bad feet. But really, my main fault would probably be my personality. A lot of times, I am not serious enough. I joke around too much sometimes.
Tim Hudson
#93. But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness."
"You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.
Haruki Murakami
#94. Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public or private, serious or funny, but that carry with them a reminder of community.
Robert Adams
#95. I think of myself as a serious artist. Sometimes you can get in your head too much about that and forget that you have to have fun. I've been guilty in my career about that at times. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought I didn't want anybody else to have a hit with it!
Tim McGraw
#96. I can't tell if you're serious or not,' said the driver.
I won't know myself until I find out if life is serious or not,' said Trout. 'It's dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn't necessarily mean it's serious, too.
Kurt Vonnegut
#97. Ethan: "Abstaining definitely doesn't work."
Beth: "what do you suggest?"
Ethan: "We're obviously going to have to make love often, but keep the encounters from getting too intense." He sounded perfectly serious, like he really believed what he was saying.
Lucy Monroe
#98. Becca had only had to deal with technology and administration issues and had thus far been removed from danger while she was in training for the more serious assignments. As the newest, and smallest, employee at the Society, she was too young and innocent to face the grim reality, anyway.
Anne Marie Becker
#99. A pet rock is a serious commitment and too much responsibility for a ten year old to handle on his own
Kyle Adams
#100. Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!
David Zucker
