“To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.”
“I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously”
“Take your work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously”
“Always come down from the barren heights of cleverness into the green valleys of folly.”
“if my name was on a serious work like this it would never get fair treatment. They would all say I had tried to be funny and failed.”
“I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously -”