Serious Demeanor Quotes

Long jesting was never good.

I'll be the first one to tell you that I'm not the most casual person.

I am an austere president.

If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don't stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you'll never see it again.

Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.

The funniest thing about some people is that they have no sense of humor.

I'm a serious person by nature - sometimes too serious.

Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?

Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.

Most of the stuff I've done is quite serious, so I'm usually studious.

Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.

I can be very stoic looking, that's just my facial expression. I don't smile a lot.

Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.

Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.

I'm tired of being the funniest person in the room.

A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.

Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.

My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could to never permit myself any amusements or diversions except those afforded by my studies.

Sean Penn has never become the lighter, laughing guy.

I think in my case winning fans came as a result of winning tournaments. Certainly, I didn't have too many supporters when I came on Tour. I didn't look like an athlete, I was overweight, had a crew cut, baggy clothes and on top of that I didn't smile much. I was very serious about my game, literally and figuratively the heavy.

I'm not going to be remotely funny.

I think that I probably break on set more than I make other people break. I've realized recently that, in my everyday social life, I'm a very easygoing person, but when it comes to work, I'm pretty type - A. I'm very focused and I take it maybe too seriously sometimes. So, when I'm on set, even when there are really funny people that I'm in the scenes with, I'm generally good at not breaking too often.

There was Kir, red hair combed back and That Expression on his sharp face. Even his freckles looked serious. I'd given up wondering how a freckle-faced teenager could look so much like a disapproving granny.

For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.