I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right. – Mads Mikkelsen
French culture takes ageing very seriously. There’s much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries. – Kristin Scott Thomas
All the filmmakers I’ve worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously. – Jeremy Davies
I think that there’s been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously. – Juan Cole
Even while starting out I took things very seriously; I wasn’t the sort of kid that would do a doll commercial or do a series for Nickelodeon. They asked me to do silly things, and I wasn’t a silly kid. – Kristen Stewart
My big places to shop are Wal-Mart and Target – seriously. That is where half of my stuff comes from now. – Kelly Preston
When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that’s when I began to say, ‘Okay, this is something that I could take seriously.’ When I came to Minneapolis, it just refined everything. – Lizzo
Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher. – John Banville
In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself. – Jerry Kramer
How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously? – Leonard Slatkin
I’ve had a pretty charmed life, so there’s nothing that I need to take too seriously right now. – Larisa Oleynik
I think that there’s always room for humour in music. It’s something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame. – Kate Bush
Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously. – Kerry Thornley
If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts. – Leon Kass
