Top 100 Too Seriously Quotes
#1. We are really living the American dream, to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to steep ourselves in our heritage. But we do it with a sense of humor. We don't take ourselves too seriously in fashion.
Tommy Hilfiger
#2. The trick is to be grateful for our good moods and graceful in our low moods
not taking them too seriously.
Richard Carlson
#3. I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time.
Tadashi Yanai
#4. We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping.
Minna Antrim
#5. 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
#6. Maybe some guys were looking at that ranking a little bit too seriously.
Kasey Keller
#7. The task he has chosen for himself, of wooing my mother with a bright red pickup truck, a Patsy Cline tape, and a string of malapropisms, is ample justification to me for not taking the world too seriously, its relentless heartbreak notwithstanding.
Richard Russo
#8. How can you possibly be happy if you think you're a person? Because we all know, just by definition, that people are definitely not happy because they take everything too seriously. They take themselves seriously.
Frederick Lenz
#9. Someone who doesn't take herself too seriously and can be a goofball. Because everyone's a nerd inside, I don't care how cool you are.
Channing Tatum
#10. It was the first time I worked with Matthew McConaughey [in the True Detective].They're fun guys [with Woody Harrelson]. They don't take life at all too seriously, but yet they take their work very seriously. And both of them are just so committed to character and the story.
Michelle Monaghan
#11. Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.
Marcel Duchamp
#12. The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.
Donna Tartt
#13. For anyone who feels they are overwhelmed by their job, or maybe they take their job too seriously or are working too hard, I say go to a safari, particularly the Okavango Delta, and just be humbled.
Jill Scott
#14. You can't take their type too seriously; they will be all steamed up over an idea today, but by tomorrow will have dropped it for some other wild notion.
W.J. King
#15. Levity, you need levity to feel anything. You need to laugh before you cry. I think films that take themselves too seriously without any levity are missing an important ingredient to the potential emotional impact of their stories.
Cary Fukunaga
#16. Today, take a break from your ego and don't take yourself too seriously. Enjoy your Spirit and laugh!
Sonia Choquette
#17. As long as I do not take myself too seriously I should not be too badly off.
Prince
#18. If there is ONE THING that you do today, let it be this ...
Don't take life WAY too seriously.
Tanya Masse
#19. Who is Incredible Hulk ?
..A monster man who took "Go Green" too seriously.
Gaurav Rao
#20. I have to not take myself too seriously and I have to realise that if it is meant to be, it will be.
Teresa Palmer
#21. Not taking yourself too seriously, that's the important thing.
Chris Colfer
#22. My dad never took himself too seriously. He always treated everyone with respect, and he made sure I was like that, too. I show up, I hit my mark, and I say my lines.
Scott Eastwood
#23. I think it's very dangerous for an actor to take [shooting] too seriously because I think it could really damage you if you do that.
Michael Pitt
#24. I think I don't take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it's a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.
Bruno Mars
#25. 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
#26. Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.
C.S. Lewis
#27. Being a writer, I take thing seriously (not too seriously). I may be a young writer/self publisher, I do love to write and I want to share my stories to the world. but more importantly, I do take writing seriously.
Simi Sunny
#28. Nothing's more charming than someone who doesn't take herself too seriously.
Melissa McCarthy
#30. Apparently, I don't want to take myself too seriously.
Creed Bratton
#31. Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.
Kailash Kher
#32. I'm drawn to girls with a certain self-effacing, humorous quality and an innate independence and point of view. I love the notion of never taking yourself too seriously or being too put together.
Chris Benz
#33. Learn your craft well. Take care of your own business. Success (popularity) is fleeting for most, but longevity lies in a quality craft with integrity. Oh, and don't take yourself too seriously.
Oleta Adams
#34. The trick is to find the style that is right for you. When it comes to trying new clothes, my advice is not to take it too seriously - it's all about having fun.
Twiggy
#35. Never take yourself too seriously. Learn to let go and let the words flow.
Caron Kamps Widden
#36. Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.
Halle Berry
#37. I try not to take myself too seriously, but I do take my work seriously.
Alison Doody
#38. We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment.
Janine Shepherd
#39. Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously.
Billy Gardell
#40. If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.
Joe Rogan
#41. Ten out of ten people die, so don't take life too seriously.
Henry Winkler
#42. Growing up, I just wore whatever fit. I was going through crazy growth spurts, so I could never really take my style too seriously.
Chandler Parsons
#43. I'd say the majority of my friends are Australians, although I have some good American friends, but I think with Aussies, we just get it. We don't take each other too seriously, which is a relief.
Bella Heathcote
#44. It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#45. I have fun. I don't take myself too seriously.
Georgia Salpa
#46. I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies.
Gina Gershon
#47. You face adversity all the time. I accept what lies ahead and then I do my best. You can't take things too seriously, and you can't use things as an excuse or you'll never get through.
Kristine Lilly
#48. I think that's my personality, to have a good laugh and not to take myself too seriously. And of course I have my things on the court but when I'm off the court I just like to have fun.
Caroline Wozniacki
#49. Keep it fun. Don't take it too seriously. At the same time, when you do feel inspired, take it seriously, too.
Chris Sharma
#50. It's hard for me to take myself too seriously when I'm constantly experiencing firsthand what an incredible gimp I can be.
Patrick Rothfuss
#51. I had come to the conclusion that everyone took sex far too seriously. I mean, it's only sex.
Chloe Thurlow
#52. The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.
Corey Taylor
#53. Don't take life too seriously and have fun. Don't waste your time on things that your ego will try and convince you are important.
RuPaul
#55. I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously.
John Travolta
#57. 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
#58. 'The Simpsons' appearances were great fun. But I don't take them too seriously. I think 'The Simpsons' have treated my disability responsibly.
Stephen Hawking
#59. Those who don't take themselves too seriously have marriages that seem to just be better.
Fawn Weaver
#60. To be even more successful in Business Development, lighten up, enjoy the journey, learn from your prospects and learn from your experiences. As a professional Business Developer, don't take yourself or any situation too seriously, and always be thankful for your resulting opportunities.
Nicholas Coppings
#61. What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#62. Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
Henry Miller
#63. For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice.
Giovanni Ribisi
#64. Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
Lord Byron
#65. Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough.
Steven Weinberg
#66. I like a girl who doesn't take life too seriously and is quite easy-going.
Louis Tomlinson
#67. I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
Karl Barth
#68. So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously
Dalai Lama
#69. His joy was a release of Paul's conversion, not the heavy backslapping practical-joking humor of the Victorians, nor the cynical satire or the flippancy of the twenty first century mass media, just the gift of not taking himself or his adversaries too seriously.
John Charles Pollock
#70. People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating.
Daniel Johns
#71. Fiction writers shouldn't take themselves too seriously - we're just daydreamers who daydream better than most.
Flavia Ida
#72. I don't take Twitter too seriously in the physical world.
Ilana Glazer
#73. Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.
Dan Auerbach
#74. Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.
Anne Lamott
#75. You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
Ram Kapoor
#76. I think that comedians, more than any other type of celebrity, have to keep their humour and keep their feet on the ground. If they start taking themselves too seriously, they're heading for a fall.
Jimmy Carr
#77. If there is but one pearl of wisdom I have to impart to you, after all my observations here thus far, it is do not take yourself too seriously. Because when you get here, you might just find that you are not exactly who or what you thought you were.
Natasha Rendell
#78. You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy.
Paula Patton
#79. It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.
David Zucker
#80. I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.
Barbara Hershey
#81. I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.
Carter Burwell
#82. Don't take life too seriously.
RuPaul
#83. Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously - the midday sun always excepted.
Rudyard Kipling
#84. If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler
#86. Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat ... Never take yourself too seriously.
Og Mandino
#87. Business leaders take things far too seriously, and forget that most of the time people spend in their lives is at work, and it should be fun.
Richard Branson
#88. I am the kind of guy who has never taken myself too seriously. I mean, I am very serious about what I do; I'm very serious about the creative process and everything, but at the end of the day, I am just another lucky geek who got to live out a dream, you know?
Corey Taylor
#89. I suppose I could be accused of taking acting too seriously and losing the fun of it. I do take my work very seriously; I take on the responsibility of it.
David Suchet
#90. You shouldn't take this job too seriously. Except for when you should.
Hope Jahren
#91. We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.
George R R Martin
#92. Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.
Colleen Hoover
#93. It's important not to take all this fashion stuff too seriously, and I kind of love the idea of cheesiness.
Joseph Altuzarra
#94. In our house we don't take ourselves too seriously, and laughter is the best form of unity, I think, in a marriage.
Michelle Obama
#95. As you get older no doubt you'll change automatically, just like I did. You will learn all the tricks. You will dress much better, and talk much more, and listen much less. And you'll start to realise that it never does one much good to take anything too seriously at all.
Caroline Blackwood
#96. Humankind made these religions; that our brains are capable of doing that is neither something to take too seriously - because we also make poop, and we learned to flush that the fuck down the toilet - but it's also not something to totally disregard.
Dan Harmon
#97. I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.
Muriel Spark
#98. I don't think it's healthy to take yourself too seriously.
Payne Stewart
#99. I'm fascinated by caddy Buddhists popping up all over Hollywood and people that take themselves too seriously.
Tig Notaro
#100. I don't want to take myself too seriously. That's my lesson to myself.
Creed Bratton
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