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It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.

I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy. You don't want to be some earnest guy who's just trying to do the right thing but can't. I want to be doing the wrong thing intentionally.

Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.

The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.

I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least.

You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.

I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.

Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.

I'm always being introduced as 'Tony Award-winning Douglas Hodge.' It's extraordinary.