Top 100 Very Serious Quotes
#1. One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.
Theognis Of Megara
#2. I'm very serious about what I write and who I allow to produce the music, because I want to make sure it's a true album, and not just something pushed out there to create hype and more fame for myself.
Alyson Stoner
#3. You can't be serious," Eve said. "Guys. People get eaten in places like this. At the very least, we get locked in a room and terrible, evil things get done to us and put on the Internet. I've seen the movies."
"Eve," Michael said. "Horror movies are not documentaries.
Rachel Caine
#4. There was also a daughter, very short, very plump, very gay, an amazing production for the Gregorievitches. It was as if two very serious authors had set out to collaborate and then had published a limerick.
Rebecca West
#5. Bill Murray is a wonderful actor, and he's very funny, and I've seen him be serious and terrific.
Geoffrey Ward
#6. Exposure to some pesticides during infancy, even at very low levels, can lead to serious life-long consequences if the pesticides disrupt hormone-driven developmental processes.
Charles Benbrook
#7. 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
#8. I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.
Avril Lavigne
#9. 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
#10. I never said I'd support Paul Ryan. I'm giving it very serious consideration.
Donald Trump
#11. I just take this job very seriously. It's almost like you play a kid's game for a king's ransom. And if you don't take it serious enough, eventually, one day, you're going to say, 'Oh, I could have done this, I could have done that.'
Sean Taylor
#12. That said, it was pretty awkward and a weird thing to shoot. Some women had a sense of humour about it and we'd laugh, but some were very serious and suspicious ... like I might be doing something bad, or maybe they were just uncomfortable.
Nicole Holofcener
#13. Whatever expectations I had for myself, none of them have come to pass. I grew up thinking I was going to be an actor, which I am. But I thought I'd be a very serious sort of Shakespearean guy going from town to town having sex with various Juliets all over the country.
Michael Ian Black
#14. A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.
Vincent Bugliosi
#15. It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#16. I've got my life. I'm very serious about my business. I've got my family. And I've got my game.
Ernie Els
#17. Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues.
Tom Vilsack
#18. A nation with a goofy foreign policy needs a very serious policy of defense.
P. J. O'Rourke
#19. Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.
Steven Morrissey
#20. By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.
A. Scott Berg
#21. You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.
Tom Hodgkinson
#22. These are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking.
Marianne Williamson
#23. I was definitely different from the other kids ... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.
Natalie Portman
#24. I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class - I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.
Eva Green
#25. Oh dear, oh deary me!" Thorn said in a ridiculous falsetto voice. "What are we going to do? It's twelve big hairy guardsmen and Mahmel in a natty green hat."
It was all very well to joke about it, Hal thought, but the situation was serious.
John Flanagan
#26. I'm a very serious person.
Tom Ford
#27. Not very picky, are you?"
"Yes. I am, actually." Jackson turned serious.
"I don't like women who play games, and that girl had 'Twister' written all over her.
Bobbie C. Bandy
#28. I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.
Douglas Kennedy
#29. We respect the freedom of all citizens. Young people should have fun, but there is no tolerance of drug abuse. Drugs have become a serious problem in Vietnam. This is why we have very strict penalties for any sort of drug dealing.
Nguyen Minh Triet
#30. I seem to suffer from a very serious condition called obliviousness by proximity. It causes screaming and the occasional uncontrollable need to stomp stupid wizards for being stupid.
T.J. Klune
#31. At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious.
Saina Nehwal
#32. We take safety very, very seriously on every film I make, and that's why I've never had a serious accident or anybody killed when I make a picture.
Michael Mann
#33. It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.
C.S. Lewis
#34. Life is nothing to be very serious about. Life is a ball in your hands to play with. Don't hold on to the ball.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#35. I first got sick after I had my daughter, Kimberly, 21 years ago. I'd always been energetic and never had any serious medical problems. Then I got very sick with a high fever. They told me I had mononucleosis. I became pregnant right away with Sean, and after he was born, I never seemed to recover.
Alana Stewart
#36. If all those Ph.D.'s were wrong, the country would be in very serious trouble.
Anonymous
#37. Pop leadership abuts pop psychology, and is very destructive. In no other serious domain of human endeavor (surgery, playing the violin) is the subject distilled down to nice-sounding aphorisms that mean nothing.
Paul Gibbons
#38. The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.
Herbie Hancock
#39. Bowing is a very serious practice. You should be prepared to bow, even in your last moment. even though it is impossible to get rid of our self-centered desires, we have to do it. Our true nature wants us to.
Shunryu Suzuki
#40. A large part of the reason I want to be so mysterious is so that I can move on and do something serious at some point in my career X years from now. It might be very difficult otherwise, because I'm ... wild
Paul Reubens
#41. Dealmaking is to movie people what the tea ceremony is to the Japanese. They are very, very serious about it.
Nicolas Kent
#42. You have to be very cautious that you're hitting the right beats and making sure it's funny, but at the same time when those notes are serious, you're trying to get your point across and it's not about the comedy.
LeToya Luckett
#43. It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.
Val Kilmer
#44. Most young people now are very vulnerable as to what the American film aficionados are going to say. They care too much about a system that has no room for them. It's really a serious issue for me, because to me it's, how do I survive beyond a film that was disgraced or praised?
Haile Gerima
#45. The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.
Abhisit Vejjajiva
#46. David Boreanaz is pretty funny. He's probably the one that cracks everybody up the most on set. He can be very serious as well, but when he's silly he's pretty silly.
Emily Deschanel
#47. My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
Natalia Tena
#48. Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right.
John Hickenlooper
#49. I may be a lot of things, Doc. A criminal. Sure. A very good dresser. Absolutely. A man with a huge cock. Fuck, yes." His face grew serious. "But I'm no fucking liar.
T.M. Frazier
#50. I was very serious about being a priest, twice in my life. Almost joined the Montfort Seminary after I graduated from high school. Almost went back in the seminary during college.
Rudy Giuliani
#52. People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.
Jose Gonzalez
#53. Never misunderstand seriousness for sincerity. Sincerity is very playful, never serious. It is true, authentic, but never serious. Sincerity does not have a long face, it is bubbling with joy, radiating with an inner joyousness.
Rajneesh
#55. I'm very serious about what I do. I practice every day for three hours. I work on my scales; I work on my tone. But otherwise, I like to have fun.
Kenny G
#56. It's a very serious thing, love is. Sometimes it makes your heart so big it gets in the way of your voice.
Cole McCade
#57. You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.
Janet Evanovich
#58. I really took filmmaking very seriously ... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.
John Singleton
#59. I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.
Carl Lewis
#60. Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.
Charles Bukowski
#61. Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.
Rube Goldberg
#62. I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce.
Ugo Cavallero
#63. When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.
Maggie Q
#64. I did all the musicals in high school, and I loved it. And then I got to theater school at college, and was like, "No, I'm a serious actor. I want to do Shakespeare. I want to do classical theater." I took myself very seriously.
Timothy Omundson
#65. When you start to build a serious wardrobe, the navy blazer is the very first piece you should choose. It can be a building block for an entire work and casual wardrobe.
Derren Brown
#66. I was still not very experienced with women in spite of Shirl. No sisters, no serious girlfriends, no coed classes until graduate school. Shirl had been a total anomaly, a force of nature.
Jack Walker
#67. I take losses very personal and very serious.
Pau Gasol
#68. Our universe is not suitable for waiting. This universe is a 'we must do something universe,' it is a 'we must be serious universe!' Think fast, think right and implement your thoughts very fast! To survive in this universe, 'waiting' must be abolished!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#69. Well, I think that abstinence has its place as part of a comprehensive health and sex education curriculum. It would be wrong to exclude abstinence from a health curriculum, because there are some potentially very serious ramifications for early sexual activity.
Kerry Healey
#70. Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious.
Thabo Mbeki
#71. We think the feelings that are very serious in a man quite comical in a boy.
Charles Dickens
#72. I owe a great deal to the church for everything in which I believe. I am very glad that I was brought up strictly. I was a very serious child. There was not a lot of fun and sparkle in my life.
Margaret Thatcher
#73. Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.
Barton Gellman
#74. I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.
Robert Anton Wilson
#75. I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.
Henry Flynt
#76. Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed with a local company, although it wasn't a professional company.
Cathy Marie Buchanan
#77. Of course, the opposite of white privilege is not blackness, as many of us seemed to think then; the opposite of white privilege is working to dismantle that privilege. But my particular hip-hop generation proved to be very serious about figuring it all out and staying engaged.
Adam Mansbach
#78. The difference between actually very serious and actually very funny is actually very thin.
William Powers
#79. I think people are always really surprised when they realise I'm not a very serious person and that I'm not tremendously serious about acting. I don't like to rehearse; I hate improv. Directors that don't like to talk, they're my favourite ones.
Julianne Moore
#80. If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript even looked at by an editor. Many companies don't accept unsolicited manuscripts anymore, so they'll pay more attention to something that comes in through an agent.
Ann M. Martin
#81. The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business.
Peter Scott
#82. You think a student leaves each week because they are out of the academy. This is just a cover up to hide serious injury that has occured! Malachi has only one ear and is now wearing one of those joke rubber ones - it's very noticeable but people are too polite to say!
David Sneddon
#83. Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.
Gad Elmaleh
#85. I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various uplifting activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism.
Minnie Maddern Fiske
#86. You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated ... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be very serious ... love life.
Maya Angelou
#87. In all the time I'd been living on the streets, I've had some close calls, some serious gut check moments. I've seen things that have made my skin crawl and my heart race. I was very familiar with feeling afraid. Fear had nothing on King.
T.M. Frazier
#88. Golf is a very serious part of my life, but when you stop having fun at it, that's when it's time to hang it up.
Tiger Woods
#89. These poems possess intelligence, erudition, gravitas and urgency. Serious and moving in voice and ambition, this passionately lyrical and articulate work reminds me very much of the capacious, fierce and intelligent work of Adrienne Rich.
Tony Hoagland
#90. As first time director, though, you're like a new officer coming up to be in charge of very serious veterans, and you're always going to have guys looking at each other for the first day until they realize you're not screwing around.
William Monahan
#91. Is suffering so very serious? ... I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful ... hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain ... is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#92. Very serious, very serious. You can't get in without a reason.
Norton Juster
#93. Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to me.
Frank Luntz
#94. I am a very keen photographer. I have enjoyed taking pictures since I was a kid with my family, but I became more serious about it at university.
Ren Ng
#95. For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.
G.H. Hardy
#96. Doing drama is a very welcome departure from comedy. Although I love doing both, I like to change it up a bit once in a while with roles in serious drama.
Paul Butcher
#97. My work is a game, a very serious game.
M.C. Escher
#98. 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
#99. Personal happiness is always a very serious matter.
Sheena Iyengar
#100. There are very serious forms of, and reactions to, sibling victimization.
David Finkelhor
