Serious

"There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."

"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different."

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

"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious."

"I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids."

"I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do in my life, seriously"

"An annuity is a very serious business."

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."

"Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security."

"Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally."

"People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she's so serious and stoic. I'm the opposite."

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."