#serious

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#anyone #consistently #does #himself #laugh

Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#amusing #chaplin #charlie #could #course

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious. ↗

— Max Lerner

#serious #seventeen #you

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

#because #i #new #new york #novel

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#laws #once #proper #serious #writing

It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division. ↗

— Hans Kung

#change #church #community #division #few

Play so that you may be serious. ↗

— Anacharsis

#play #serious #you

Yellow usually means it's not that serious. ↗

— Bobby Unser

#serious #usually #yellow

I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now. ↗

— Larisa Oleynik

#had #i #life #need #nothing

I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them. ↗