China should have a currency which is a much higher value relative to the dollar and other things. What they're doing is keeping it low, artificially low. And I mean seriously artificial. I don't just mean a little bit low. I mean major low.
You can't take yourself too seriously. But always have conviction.
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
When you're indestructible, then nothing is a threat really. So nothing needs to be taken that seriously.
I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.
Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls only did that on TV.
When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn't have taken myself seriously.
Rules for today: 1) Pray 2) Laugh 3) Repeat. The only reason to take this life too seriously is if it's your only one.
When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down to the countryside of grief, and that descent, resisted so long proves invigorating. . . . As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.
I never take myself too seriously.
Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough.
If I were a chocolate I'd eat myself. Seriously, we're all interested in ourselves and what other people are saying about us to some extent.
Anybody can go onstage and be dirty. You have to be funny, that's the key. You can say anything as long as it's funny. You can't take it too seriously up there. And people coming to see you can't take it too seriously.
Big ideas don't make them selves known as big. They begin with the little, ridiculous ideas that most people would discard or reject. Every successful picture I've done has really been based on taking a very flimsy, fleeting little idea, grabbing hold of it, and taking it seriously.
I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.
Don't take yourself too seriously - learn to laugh.
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.
I had seen some shows at the Groundlings [legendary L. A. improvisational and sketch comedy troupe] and thought, "If I could ever do that, that would really mean something, that I have arrived. " So I went through the program and said to myself, "I'm going to stay here until they kick me out. " Seriously, they can ask you to leave at any point. Luckily, they never did that to me.
People enjoy media and games in different ways - some people enjoy something that they can take seriously and invest themselves in. That's something we're comfortable with.
A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.
