Serious Business Quotes

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

I think people have a misconception about comedians and performers. All that stuff is serious business.

One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are few.

The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business.

Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.

There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.

My point here, young couples, is that baby-having is extremely serious business, and you probably don't have the vaguest idea what you're doing, as is evidenced by the fact that you're reading a very sloppy and poorly researched book.

For years, people have been trying to talk to me about doing a show, and I wouldn't do one because I'm a serious business guy. I'm not going to do a stupid show. So, the opportunity came up with CNBC, and we started talking. It became a real business show. It's educational, people watch it, and it's great for small business.

I think government is serious business and important.

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

The Muppets are no joke. They are for real. Each one has an agent and manager and all that stuff. I'm not even kidding.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

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.

An annuity is a very serious business.

Backing a company is a serious business.

I love producing other people's work, but presenting is a very serious business. It's a marriage.

Government is not show business.

Comedy makes me soar, and comedy is very serious business.

It's such a long season, right? It's certainly serious business, but it's no sense that we all have to be miserable doing it.

Comedy is a funny business, which you have to take seriously.

Business is business, no child's play.

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.