Serious Tone Quotes

I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.

In the '80s, everything became too serious.

I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.

At no point was I like, 'Man, I gotta write me a part where people are going to take me seriously'.

I don't think I've ever written a poem whose intention was just to be funny. I've written poems that start out funny and often shift into something more serious.

None of my films are 'Pollyanna.' They're not little deers walking around with butterflies and stuff. That's not what I do.

If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.

Star Trek' always had a pretty serious atmosphere, but with 'Twin Peaks,' you walked onto the set and you had the feeling that everybody was walking around in a trance.

When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.

I don't make movies that make fun of anything.

I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.

'New Moon' was such a serious, depressing movie that people felt we had lost a little humor of the books.

We are not here to laugh.

I wanted to give people songs like 'Wait a Minute' and 'Formal Invite' for the club, and I also wanted to get real serious and show them my versatility.

As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.

You probably shouldn't laugh any more.

Everyone is just so serious right now, especially in fashion.

Francesca took a navy blue sheath from a hanger and held it up. "This is darling, Gabriel. Don't you love it? You're right, I think we need to concentrate on much more feminine articles of clothing." He reached around her and fingered the soft material. "Where is the rest of it?" He was very serious, his dark eyes searching her face for signs she was teasing.

David Ayer is known for being a very serious filmmaker, but he has a very great sense of humor.

'Samurai' is not an animated show like you would normally watch on TV. We tell the stories from a different perspective - backward, very nonlinear. It treats it more seriously as an art form.

Joking apart, now let us be serious.

I would have liked it to have stayed serious and have the adventures of a family lost in space. This isn't to take anything away from Jonathan and the Robot. I watch his performance today and he still makes me laugh.

That's pretty weird—and when I say something's weird, you know it's serious.

I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries.