I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.

I need to behave in a way that will cause people to take me seriously.

The fact is that we take music very seriously.

It's never too late to take your heart health seriously and make it a priority.

I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.

Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

A lot of leading countries in the world, including the United States and Russia, have to take their responsibilities much more seriously to ensure we are back on the road to peace and stability.

We are obsessed with image. I don't think we should take it that seriously.

In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself.

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

What I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

The BBC sports department when I was there was seriously to the right of Ghengis Khan, and if people think I am strange, they should have met some of the production staff I worked with. Margaret Thatcher and the Queen were the pin up girls for many of them.

You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

If you don't take your clothes seriously, why should your viewers take you seriously?

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

I haven't had many relationships.

I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

You can win more friends with your ears than with your mouth. People who feel like they're being listened to feel accepted and appreciated. They feel like they're being taken seriously and what they say really matters.

With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously.

A social contract is the way out of this dilemma for corporations that want to lead in the 21st century by showing consumers how seriously they take customer loyalty and goodwill.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

You can't take yourself too seriously.

Take your work seriously and yourself lightly.

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.

It's nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.

The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.

Don't take things too seriously.

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

I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

You mustn't take any award so seriously.

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

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

So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.

Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

You have to be serious-minded in business, but not take yourself seriously.

There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job.

For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.

I know that some actors take acting terribly seriously. I take it seriously in that if someone pays me to do it I know I have to deliver.

I don't take reviews very seriously, but in their totality I think they are representative of how the audience feels, and of what their reaction is. There's always one guy who doesn't get it.

I always take working out seriously, but before a shoot I do extra sit ups and squats. I also eat more vegetables and drink a ton of water, because it really helps my skin glow.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

Seriously, I like to wear hats so I don't get super tan. You have to protect the face.

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

I seriously started drinking probably when I was about twelve. Kids are doing a lot of stuff very early.

I don't take myself too seriously. I think that's something so many actors and people in general tend to do.

No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne.

The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.

For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.

No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.

Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.

When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.

I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.

We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain.

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'

No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Morocco, all of the Middle East except Israel and Jordan and most of the oil-rich states, and the entire former British Indian Empire were better governed by Europeans.

I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.