I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
Like all of us, we have pretty serious mood swings.
I do think deception... There's something kind of odd about tricking people for a living, but ultimately, it's a remarkably honest profession, when you think about it. If you violate that code, and you say you're not using camera tricks, and then you do, I actually think that's a kind of serious moral issue.
I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.
People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.
It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.
In the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th century and later as serious competition developed in the first half of the 20th. Legal wars waged by boxers in the 1960s and '70s won women the right to compete professionally nationwide.
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.
The New Day has been the New Day because what we have done. We can be entertaining but then we can get serious, too.
There's something missing in all this new new media craziness, and that is something that uses celebrity news as a way to get into a really serious analysis of our culture.
Bad performances can happen and are not that serious - even with new players. You can't, say, sell him, get a new one.
The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.
Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed with a local company, although it wasn't a professional company.
I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon.
I remember that, often, Mike Phelan would just nip down to the touchline for a message to one or two players. It was usually just a tactical thing. But when Sir Alex comes to the touchline, all the players know that it's serious stuff.
I'm serious about the music, but I'm not serious about the fantasy. It's no big deal being on TV!
I had no fun. My family was too serious.
My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.
I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.
