I think the most important thing is to have fun, and not to take things too seriously. Once you start doing that, then you’ll start to crumble.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
I did some plays in high school. Yes. Never took it that seriously. My parents, however, wanted me to go to college. My grades weren’t exactly spectacular so they figured acting might be a necessary back door into some school.
I never take myself too seriously.
I take my role seriously as a pastor.
In normal life people say, ‘You’re so different than on stage!’ Offstage I’m down to earth, simple and a very goofy girl… I like to make goofy faces, be dorky and not take things too seriously. I just love to laugh.
I don’t put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.
I’d love to play someone who’s insane or something, just so I can go flake out. I like a superhero. I know that’s ironic. That’s where we are, but seriously, it’d be really cool to play a superhero.
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
I never had to do anything specific to craft my ‘image.’ I wanted people to know that I was a goofball, that I didn’t take myself too seriously, and that I love what I do. On my Twitter and Instagram, whenever I can, I try and show myself. I’m not trying to be an Instagram model.
I’m definitely laid back. I don’t take things so seriously.
I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn’t want to sacrifice the ladies!
The NBA’s chosen ones think I’m setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.
I take it extremely seriously to do absolutely the best work possible and the truest work possible, because I feel like that is what’s going to resonate not only for myself but hopefully for an audience.
I can’t take a well-tanned person seriously.
This film is what it is. It’s a campy thriller horror movie where you go and have fun. With these types of films, you can’t take it too seriously. They are what they are.
I feel it’s important to show different sides of my character, and I never take myself too seriously.
When given age-appropriate challenges, children tend to take them very seriously; in fact, the more obvious the risk is, the more cautiously a child will proceed.
I guess it’s human nature, as every group breaks into factions, yet at a time when we are trying to be taken seriously, it can confuse people – especially when it moves from being about where you want to go and what you want to do to why the others are idiots.
It’s been about 15 years, and I’ve never really worked seriously in CGI and I thought that here was an opportunity to do the kinds of things that I was not able to do on Ghostbusters.
I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.
I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn’t understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.
I am a dreamer. Seriously, I’m living on another planet.
I don’t have a diet. Jenny Craig got a diet. Seriously. I eat to live, not to die.
Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme – it’s taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn’t mean or anything.
And I don’t believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable – they should be taken absolutely seriously.
Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.
I can’t see myself without pink lipstick. I can go without it for a couple days, but if there was no more pink lipstick in the world, I’d be useless. Seriously.
People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
I went to community college for about a year but I’d started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
Don’t take things too seriously, and just chill.
I make no apologies in admitting that I take very seriously the dehumanizing dangers in our tendency in modern science to make man over into the image of the machine, into the image of the techniques by which we study him.
We didn’t take Charlize Theron seriously until she did ‘Monster’ and became physically ugly. I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful.
Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world… the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.
I don’t take myself too seriously. I think that’s something so many actors and people in general tend to do.
You hear people say, ‘We take our Tennessee Williams very seriously. There is no laughter here.’ It’s full of humor! Not to laugh is a big, bad mistake!
The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here’s a team that seems to be jelling.
So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I’m on the set, but I don’t take myself seriously as an actor.
The European nations take climate change very seriously.
I never really thought about being a role model. I started really young, so at 10 years old, I was still very much the person who needed role models. I wasn’t really prepared to be one, but it’s always something that I’ve taken very seriously.
Whether you’re a DJ, whether you a rapper, whether you a producer, take it seriously. This is an occupation – you can get paid – don’t expect to blow up overnight, and appreciate when you do get paid any type of money, appreciate it.
Cronenberg’s a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don’t know watching his movies. He doesn’t take himself seriously. He’s still reinventing himself.
I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn’t until the early ’90s that I took music seriously.
My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat – seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don’t think we would have survived if there had been more kids.
I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school.
I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don’t know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.
‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ – I had a lot of friends who told me to watch it. And I was like, ‘I’m not buying seven seasons of a frickin’ show.’ It got to the point where, ‘Seriously, you have to watch it.’ Buffy is not my favorite, but it’s amusing.
I find it odd that people take me seriously.
My decision to look seriously at elected office is grounded in a deep commitment to public service and my experience – both my own and that of my family – in finding just, practical, and bipartisan solutions to difficult challenges.
I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.
I don’t think it’s healthy to take yourself too seriously.
Everyone always says that guys are intimidated by me, but I seriously doubt it. I mean, I’m five-foot-nothing!
I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can’t take it too seriously.
I know I do swag rap also, but I also take it seriously. It’s like 50-50.
I never took myself too seriously.
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.
The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.
Being a mentor is something that’s new for me but a role that I take very seriously.
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.
I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
I don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt… I hate them.
If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
