In the OLD days we were probably educated in CRICKET in a FAR more serious WAY than now.

I believe that a work of art, LIKE metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult QUESTIONS in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, CHALLENGES him DIRECTLY and brings him into the argument.

I don't THINK you have to be in these SERIOUS, heavy, INDEPENDENT little movies to be an actor. Some of the most INTERESTING acting I've seen is on CABLE television.

We are sort of not at the level of entertainment that the Western world is. Everything we see on the play in the screen, we read, we take serious. We take that it speaks to me. And so wonderful to see how the Johannesburg, South AFRICAN audiences will say: What does it say to me? What does it MAKE me feel? Why am I CELEBRATING it?

When I'm WRITING a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing EITHER 2,000 WORDS a day or writing until noon. After I hit whichever MARK comes first, then I can give my ATTENTION to everything else I have to do.

'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. EVEN THOUGH it's a comedy and there are serious MOMENTS, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. WHETHER it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.

In the process of telling the truth about what you FEEL or what you SEE, each of US has to get in TOUCH with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to DEAL with in a very SERIOUS and determined way if you're going to BEAT it.

There are TIMES I go out and meet people and flirt, but it's not REALLY APPROPRIATE to have ANYTHING SERIOUS.

In this present CULTURE, we need to find the means to work and live TOGETHER with LESS AGGRESSION if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

I'm a SERIOUS aficionada of COUNTRY music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even WRITTEN some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a MATTER of TIME.

Nothing is WORTH doing unless the CONSEQUENCES MAY be SERIOUS.

You can have REALLY good STATISTICS, which are really good, and it's a serious ADVANTAGE, but when push comes to shove, it's about players COMMUNICATING and players playing together.