Serious Quotes

• As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals, rather than as members of a team working together for their patients. Both practices have made for serious problems.

  

  Atul Gawande
  • Together
  • Team
  • Quality

• I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly... I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Funny
  • Always
  • Emotional

• 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
  • Up
  • Might
  • Booty

• Growing up, I was always adamant that I would never do 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours,' because as an actor you want to set your path as that serious kind of actor.

  

  Brenton Thwaites
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• I've laughed hysterically, just trying to hold it in, at every funeral I've been to, because everyone's so serious. And there are a lot of people speaking publicly, which makes you understand why it's people's number one fear - because everyone shouldn't do it.

  

  Jerrod Carmichael
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered.

  

  Dave Liebman
  • Serious
  • Encountered
  • Minded

• If you want to preserve - I'm very serious now - if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started.

  

  John McCain
  • Time
  • Free
  • Democracy

• [Baz Luhrmann] is very serious - he wants it done and he wants it done accurately. He was in the studio actually when I recorded "Everybody's Free." I remember meeting him and him being amazed by my voice.

  

  Quindon Tarver
  • Done
  • Remember
  • Free

• Indeed, until she had met Lev at school, it had not occurred to her that anyone might prefer to speak a plain fact rather than a lie that sounded well. People said what suited their purposes, when they were serious; and when they weren’t serious, they talked without meaning anything at all.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • School
  • She

• My cousin Joey played the drums. We used to go to his house, I liked beating on his drums. I beat the hell out of 'em, you know? Finally in 1961, I don't know, I guess I was about 15, I got serious about it. My parents bought me a little drum set and I was playing for about 6 months when I started doing gigs.

  

  Carmine Appice Cactus
  • House
  • Parent
  • Hell

• 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
  • Life
  • Music
  • Fun

• I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.

  

  Peter Hammill
  • Music
  • Serious
  • Vision

• Working on a particular look doesn't make you a serious actor.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Serious

• Backing a company is a serious business.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Business
  • Serious

• I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Serious

• I’m dead serious about being nonsensical.

  

  Edward Ruscha
  • Serious

• Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Imagination
  • Wit
  • Humorous

• Gigabit Opportunity Zones would enable Americans to become participants in, rather than spectators of, the digital economy. They would be a powerful solution to the digital divide. I hope our elected officials will give the idea serious consideration.

  

  Ajit Pai
  • Hope
  • Opportunity
  • Powerful

• Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse.

  

  Lee Majors
  • Serious

• Stewart's interest in serious acting gives her something in common with Theron - and, like Theron, some of her most provocative work has come through working with women.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Serious

• The net effect of cutting commercials in half is a fairly serious economic reality for Premier - and for me.

  

  Art Bell
  • Reality
  • Serious
  • Cutting

• I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Serious

• I'm definitely in the market for being uncool. There was some funny stuff, like the thing about making sure I show people that I have tattoos and cigarettes so that they know I'm badass. But really, I do have tattoos! And I do smoke cigarettes sometimes, and I can't change that. But I am not badass, by any means. I do some stuff that's tongue-in-cheek, and some stuff that's on the line. And it could be funny, it could be serious, and I never even know myself, because it could be funny that day, and the next day it's totally embarrassing.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • People
  • Mean
  • Sometimes

• You can make serious pop, you know? There was a time when the best movies were the most popular, and I keep thinking that can happen again.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Popular

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