My parents were very calm about the photographers, the fans, and all that. But I understood right away that I hadn’t done anything to deserve that attention. No matter what happens, it will be there. I didn’t choose it. You just can’t take that too seriously. You need to live your life. And stay calm.
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.
Eponymous brands aren’t that popular with analysts and investors now. You can only take an eponymous brand with a living figurehead so far, they argue. What happens when they grow old and die? What happens when they misbehave and go seriously off-brand?
I can bore for England on the subject of James Bond. But I knew I couldn’t do it frivolously; I had to take it very seriously, however much fun I was having. And I had to make myself, you know, absolutely steeped in Bond and in Fleming and that world.
Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.
At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education.
Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.
I prefer a life in which we don’t take ourselves too seriously.
I have a stunt double. His name is Glen Levy, and he has the hardest punch in the world. Seriously – it’s actually been recorded by National Geographic. He calls it the Hammer Fist. And he’s my stunt double! He makes me look awesome.
I’m fascinated by caddy Buddhists popping up all over Hollywood and people that take themselves too seriously.
If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don’t marry and have kids, and above all, don’t die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
When I did ‘Battlestar Galactica’ it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama, but set in spaceships so people didn’t really take it seriously. But some really fascinating things were explored in that.
I take the invasion of my personal space very seriously.
I’m a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.
We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.
I am a professional actor, and I don’t go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You’re not making some kind of social statement. That’s not what actors do.
I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.
I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.
Plus, doing a zombie movie is quite liberating. It’s fun not to take myself seriously all the time.
I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
Seriously, I will probably out-talk you if you come up to me because I’m a chatterbox.
I’ve been singing ever since I was little, but I didn’t start taking it seriously until I was about 15 or 16.
The main reason I did ‘Captain America’ was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.
I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.
But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let’s get our priorities straight. I think we all know what’s really important in life – winning an Oscar.
I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that’s why I don’t read them. I think people are lying when they say they don’t care, that’s not true. I take them personally.
I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously – a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too.
I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it’s a group of people I’m dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.
I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex – where it has stood before – and lead the world.
They all matter to me, whether I’m working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I’m the star of my own TV series – I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role.
I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for.
Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule is you can’t have any self-consciousness, otherwise it kills the laugh, and that will never change.
I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they’ll be in a totally different category. People won’t take them seriously. They’ll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
Authors change publishers because it’s like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
I have started not to take things too seriously, loving life is my motto.
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next time a woman runs, or a black, a Jew, or anyone from a group that the country is ‘not ready’ to elect to its highest office, I believe that he or she will be taken seriously from the start.
There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.
I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.
That title, is one of the things I fought for. A lot of people said ‘But it’s stupid, and it’s the title of a comedy movie, and people won’t take it seriously,’ and I’m sure there are some people who still don’t. But for the most part, people do see that we really have a quality show.
Bruce Lee took his craft very seriously, just as my dad took his stuff very seriously. I just loved Lee’s attitude.
Obviously, whenever the government is getting involved with speech, it gives me a lot of pause. I have a background as a journalist, so that’s something that I take very seriously.
There’s no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman – everything is against you.
I have a Viking stove. The color is butter lemon, and I had to wait several months for it, because that color wasn’t available and I really wanted butter lemon! But I don’t know that it’s seriously ever been cooked on. I mean, I make tea every morning. Does that count?
I’ve been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don’t paint when I’m acting – I’m not really able to split my focus that way. I do it intensely when I’m doing it, but I’m reluctant to take myself too seriously as a painter because that would mean there would be pressure to be better than I am.
As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.
I don’t want to take myself too seriously, thinking that I’m always having to be this cathartic, intense and deep person, because I certainly enjoy silliness.
I take friendship very seriously.
I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn’t.
Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there’s no way I’d do anything to undermine that belief.
I’m simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
I’ll tell you what, I’ve been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it’s just part of the game.
