The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'
Johnny Depp

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
Woodrow Wilson

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
Charlie Chaplin

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Vladimir Lenin

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
Albert Camus

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
Albert Schweitzer

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
Andrew Carnegie

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
Virginia Woolf

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
Ron Paul

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.
Paul McCartney

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.
Jay Leno

Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
Don Adams

I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
Jim Carrey

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
William Butler Yeats

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
Charles Dickens

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
Niels Bohr

I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.
Lee Trevino

If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
Barney Frank

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
Mao Tse-Tung

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
Adam Sandler