Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.
Joy is the serious business of heaven.
One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.
Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.
I guess there are no real strict rules [in comedy], but I just learn to apply my philosophy about comedy which is, it's a serious business and the result needs to be funny, not the process.
There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.
There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.
Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun, and we aren't ashamed to admit the fact. Why should a strict boundary line be drawn between work and play? Concrete mathematics is full of appealing patterns; the manipulations are not always easy, but the answers can be astonishingly attractive.
Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.
Now remember, kids, the internet is serious business.
Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I'm not fighting one man. I'm fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of 'em, here is one man they couldn't defeat, couldn't conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30m black people
Russia committed an act of aggression in Ukraine, and that's the first time since 1945 a European country has seized the territory of another European country. That's serious business. They started a war with their neighbor. Their troops as well as the separatists funded and controlled by Russia are killing people just about every day.
Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism. It's 365 pages of relaxation.
Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.
Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless jewels of existence.
Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to let the serious business of living proceed without distraction.
Soloing is serious business, because you can be seriously dead.
The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy!
Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.
I love 'The War Of The Roses,' especially as my husband is in it! I've often said to him it would be great to remake that with me and him in it, because then we could really get down to some serious business.
I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.
Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in Batman; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.
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