Seriously Quotes

No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
Bob Woodward

Until, Quite, Late

I take my role seriously as a pastor.
Jesse Jackson

Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.
Halle Berry

Yourself, Laugh, Find

A lot of people don't know this, but when 'Dancing with the Stars' first asked me to be on the show, I said no, because I wanted to act and to be taken seriously.
Julianne Hough

Said, Wanted, Stars

Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used by local schools and the local community. Over the last six years young people have been inspired to take up swimming and cycling more seriously; some of them are now coming through as Olympic champions or hopefuls.
Lucy Powell

Through, Young, Last

I'm sure a lot of people don't take me seriously.
Lauren Conrad

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.
John Irving

Sympathy, Laughter, Nothing

Seriously, I have the best fans ever.
Britney Spears

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
John Polkinghorne

Science, Attention, Beginning

Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!
Bobby Darin

Death, Heart, Nothing

The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.
Alastair Campbell

Today, Bad, Once

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.
Ernest Gaines

Writing, Thought, Old

When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.
George Saunders

Family, Same, Read

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.
Christopher Meloni

Love, Art, Mistakes

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

Career, Serious, Matter

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.
Joyce Carol Oates

I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting for others, for middle-class families, for working class - for working people, you know, and that's a tradition and a commitment that I take very seriously.
Caroline Kennedy

May, Working, Others

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.
Dennis Rodman

Bad, Around, Themselves

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.
Rachel Weisz

Funny, Character, Taking

I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.
James Dyson

Education, Worry, Pay

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.
Joan Collins

Attitude, Find, Far

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.
Luke Ford

Life, Religion, God

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.
Shelley Duvall

Life, Work, Yourself

I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for.
Dave Eggers

Person, Idea, Somebody

I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.
Enrique Iglesias

Dreams, Music, Happens

The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.
Florence Welch

Home, Fun, Through

I've never really taken anything very seriously. I enjoy life because I enjoy making other people enjoy it.
Tim Conway

Life, Enjoy, Making

I don't want to say never, but I hope I don't become that 'take me seriously now' guy.
Trey Parker

Hope, Become, Guy

What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.
Drew Carey

Show, Ourselves, Helps

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