#serious

I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#acting #baseball #i #really #serious

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard. ↗

— Richard Russo

#best #comedy #comic #doing #easy

It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can. ↗

— Richard Russo

#books #closely #comic #each #i

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing "Maria" from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#hang #hear #her #i #maria

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

#father #feels #getting #good #i

I am a professional performer and I only appear on TV for entertainment or for philanthropic organizations, and I consider this a very serious matter that doesn't fit into either category. ↗

— Lionel Stander

#appear #category #consider #either #entertainment

When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics. ↗

— George Stephen

#basics #books #came #decided #did

Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch. ↗

— George Stephen

#bunch #contemporary #disparate #even #horror

There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#am #fishy #going #i #impression

We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#call #case #cloud #committed #different