On military battlefields, we have defeated radical Islamic forces every time we have seriously gone after them, from Iraq to Afghanistan. – Michael T. Flynn
Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch. – George Stephen
I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn’t take it seriously any longer. – Patrick Swayze
I feel comfortable in a position of leadership, but that’s not to say I feel complacent about it. I take it incredibly seriously. – Nicola Sturgeon
So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. ‘My Humps?’ C’mon! – Fergie
I don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt… I hate them. – Grace Jones
Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly. – Elihu Root
As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody. – Michael Haneke
I don’t take reviews very seriously, but in their totality I think they are representative of how the audience feels, and of what their reaction is. There’s always one guy who doesn’t get it. – David Zucker
I’m going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle. – Melvyn Bragg
No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
I went and met with Tim Burton for the role of Batman. But I just couldn’t really take it seriously; any man who wears his underpants outside his pants just cannot be taken seriously. – Pierce Brosnan
Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously. – John Conyers
I feel as if I’m clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously – and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer. – Jonathan Franzen
Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer. – Lyall Watson