The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman.
Penelope Cruz

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Horace

What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.
Jello Biafra

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
Thorstein Veblen

The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time.
Bill Murray

I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.
Bill Murray

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!
Patsy Cline

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.
Brad Paisley

I'm a very serious person.
Tom Ford

The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.
Henry A. Wallace

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
Felix Adler

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.
Lenny Kravitz

We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
Camille Paglia

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
Sachin Tendulkar

A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
Harrison Ford