#serious

It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it. The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing, and that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way. ↗

— Adrien Brody

#amazing thing #appreciate #doing #early #either

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#begun #live #man #more #seriously

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#comes #feel #find #funny #humor

I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#church #commandments #could #especially #growing

Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#intent #seriousness #then #your

One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don't matter too much too seriously. I feel that very little offends me anymore and I'm really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid. ↗

— Anna Faris

#anymore #because #comedy #feel #given

Yeah, I do like scary movies, especially the ones that don't take themselves too seriously. ↗

— Anna Faris

#i #i do #like #movies #ones

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#been #like #part #people #seriously

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#i #intelligence #like #seriously #take

Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#come #crowds #first #had #listen