So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that’s just silly. – Deepak Chopra
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times. – Michael Morpurgo
I think it’s harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it’s hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason. – Evan Peters
There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It’s your life, and you’ve got to get these answers. – Marcia Wallace
I’m a sucker for entertainment and escapism as much as the next person. I like silly and lowbrow stuff, but I get nervous when I indulge in that too often. I want to know what’s going on in the world. I have a morbid fear of being surprised by bad news. I want to anticipate everything. – Martin Donovan
I thought maybe I’d be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I’d last about five minutes, being a farmer. – Matthew Rhys
I have this sense of humour which is about as sophisticated as a seven-year-old schoolboy. I get very overexcited and silly. – Natasha Little
I didn’t work for a year and a half after ‘Melvin and Howard’ because all I was being offered was silly parts. – Mary Steenburgen
I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have panic attacks when I was a teenager, really incapacitating moments, because I had some phobias. – Dane Cook
I always want the last line to be really good, which may sound silly, but I want it to be a last pleasing line. – Elizabeth McCracken
When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits. – Dan Fogler
I mean, all the ratings wars are silly. But, I mean, someone has to be concerned about the ratings because it means, you know, it translates into revenue. – Connie Chung
Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs. – P. T. Barnum
I’m not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges. – Frank Lampard
Melanie Fiona is a singer, a songwriter, she’s a super-girl. I can be silly, goofy, really chilled. She’s like your cool chill girlfriend, sister-friend. I’m just like everybody else. – Melanie Fiona
I can be really silly, but I never get to do that. I’m always playing on-the-nose characters, professionals – lawyers, a serious news anchor, people with a really focused energy, which can become a cliched type. – Nicole Ari Parker
I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn’t feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you’re doing a play you’re using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away. – Matthew Macfadyen
I have a slightly crap blog where I opine on anything that occurs to me and run the occasional silly competition. – Mark Lawrence
But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles. – Neil Innes
You never look silly when you’re defending the American people and their pocketbook. – Marsha Blackburn
I always wanted to be an explorer, but – it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person. – Michael Palin
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. – Mary Wortley Montagu
The course is going to make you look silly sometimes. You have to be able to accept that and move on. – Mike Weir
Listen, I’m 41 years old. I’ve got two kids. I’ve got a career. The last thing I need to be doing is having a beef with A Tribe Called Quest. It’s silly and it was unnecessary. It ain’t the first time that a director hasn’t seen eye to eye with a subject and it ain’t going to be the last time. – Michael Rapaport
I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn’t really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly. – Jesse Eisenberg
You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also, you can avoid the spread of these silly suburban houses. Chicago has thousands of them all over the place. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
In its brief 14-episode run, ‘Firefly’ gave viewers as much chance of witnessing a horseback chase or train robbery as a laser gun and spacefight in any given episode. Snappy one-liners and silly hats were a constant, of course. – Jay Kristoff
I love to watch someone who just goes for it and isn’t worried about whether it’s silly or awkward or unflattering. – Melissa McCarthy