Clowns Quotes
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Well, you can always be a clown. (Quote by - Chantal Blanchard)
I get this, .. I'm not going to clown them. I know what is going on out there. Some of these spots we've been at, they ain't so bad. I've seen worse. (Quote by - Brooks Buford)
Lucy-my God, Lucy was a brilliant, brilliant clown, but she was terribly miscast. But we would have never gotten the money for the production if she hadn't wanted to do it. (Quote by - Beatrice Arthur)
We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business. (Quote by - Edward R. Murrow)
He's just a big, jolly Glen. I mean, whenever you're down or frustrated, you can count on him to be just Glen. He's the life of the team. He's the team clown. He's amazing. (Quote by - Tyrus Thomas)
We've noticed that it's back to the favorites, like a ghost, a clown or an angel. (Quote by - Gregg Kerns)
ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
I'm not an artist. I'm an actor. I like to goof around and clown for people. It's a fun job. But I don't feel that I'm creating something that's going to have a profound effect on the world. It's fun. (Quote by - Greg Pitts)
I learned my lesson there. I was playing with Thompson and made the mistake of not respecting his determination. I left the gap and he took it. It was a hard lesson. It cost me a world title. But I promise you one thing. You won't ever see me clowning around again. (Quote by - Sebastian Rothman)
I've been everything from a human cannonball to a stage manager, to a clown. It's a different show every year, so circus followers expect us to top last year's performance every time we hit town. And we never disappoint. (Quote by - Jon Weiss)
I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends. (Quote by - Dominic Monaghan)
Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art. (Quote by - Carol King)
You kind of get pigeonholed for various reasons. One thing I didn't do in this movie (that) I regret not doing was taking a pratfall. I think, as great as Edward R. Murrow was, in terms of cinema, you've gotta honor those great clowns. (Quote by - David Strathairn)
He goes bike riding with them, sometimes hopping on their bikes looking like a clown in a circus. (Quote by - Carolyn Edwards)
The kids always like to see the clowns and decorations and horses. It's kind of the old-school rodeo parade. We encourage people to come out and enjoy the hometown event. (Quote by - Mark Evans)
We started the clown ministry soon after the church got started. The kids practice on Wednesdays and whenever else we can get them together. (Quote by - Jena Proctor)
As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown. (Quote by - Alfred Lord Tennyson)
Matt was more the little brother. Dom is a more passionate type of clown. (Quote by - Reed Martin)
Clown and guru are a single identity: the satiric and sublime side of the same higher vision of life. (Quote by - Theodore Rozak)
They laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Newton. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. (Quote by - Carl Sagan)
This is awesome and has never been offered in Murfreesboro. The teacher is outstanding. Students will be learning about clowning, makeup techniques, the history of clowning and clown costuming. The cost is $50 and $25 of that is for a makeup kit. (Quote by - Lisa Foster)
Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
He's the quiet clown of the team. He's not that outgoing, but there's a comedian inside him that comes out every once in a while. (Quote by - Eddie Sinnott)
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. (Quote by - Dr. Carl Sagan)
A clown sees life simply, without complications. (Quote by - George Bishop)
Since multinational giants couldn't have little pictures of red barns or weeping clowns in the lobbies of their Bauhaus buildings, Abstract Expressionism emerged as the world's most overrated form of interior decoration. (Quote by - Brad Holland)
She was a feisty woman. She was a clown. She made everyone laugh. Everyone loved to be around her. (Quote by - Carol Ann Marsh)
Socially, it is funny. People are annoyed because, really who is a clown?. (Quote by - Eric Davis)
I made a living out of being a class clown. (Quote by - Shannon Hoon)
People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer. (Quote by - Tom Kenny)
To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad. (Quote by - Jack Handy)
The main character is a clown who is dreaming of his funeral. He's wondering who is going to say goodbye to him, and [the show] begins with a procession of people paying tribute to him, but he's not really dead. (Quote by - Alison Crawford)
When we clown, we clown. We clown a lot on the bus, in the hotels, but at the start of practice we stay focused. (Quote by - Darnell Lazare)
I think everywhere you go in this league, you're going to find clowns. We just have a lot more clowns here. (Quote by - Antowain Smith)
I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent, class clown. And she would just say, 'Shaquille, that's not nice.' She was great to me. (Quote by - Shaquille O'Neal)
When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. (Quote by - Charlie Chaplin)
I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown, .. To get in good with the teachers. (Quote by - Christine Lavin)
She gave me a certificate for an eight-week course to Clown College as a birthday gift. I'm still experimenting with different ways of painting my face to make it more kid-friendly. (Quote by - Sherry Jenkins)
If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to the audience, you'll just be the thirteenth clown. (Quote by - Adam Walinsky)
He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
I was always the clown in school. I had a personal put down sense of humor. I wasn't vindictive. I didn't make fun of people. (Quote by - Jim Dale)
[Along the way, Mars said the band's previous jaunt had taken them to A-list markets, and this time around they were hitting the Bs -- a comment that reveals where upcoming stop Houston stands in Mötley minds. Later, Sixx chatted about how a scarf he was wearing at a recent gig began burning, prompting his rescue by a fire-extinguisher-toting roadie dressed as a] demented clown, .. pulled an Evel Knievel off the front of the stage. It was pretty crazy. (Quote by - Vince Neil)
Run! When she wrote about me, I was the clown who cried, and you'll be the costumer who cried. 'Oh, poor William! Fourteen houses and no boyfriend!. (Quote by - Nathan Lane)
He's amazing. He's a clown on the team, but he loves this game. It looks like he plays with ease. (Quote by - Matt Butler)
Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown . . . (Quote by - Fanny Brice)
You say: "The last time I contacted you, I.." Investor thinks: "I'm going to fire my secretary for putting this clown on my calendar again.". (Quote by - Contributed by: Maya Elhalal)
Grandma is our signature clown. She's a curious little old lady who wants to get involved in everything and anything. She's always wanted to be in the movies, so she moved to Hollywood. (Quote by - Paul Binder)
People don't buy from clowns. (Quote by - Claude C. Hopkins)
They saw him as the class clown. He was tall and scrawny and always playing practical jokes on teachers. The girls laughed at him but never fancied him. (Quote by - Todd Nelson)
The artist, like the idiot, or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it. (Quote by - Osbert Sitwell)
The children will do acrobatics, juggling, ride unicycles, walk on stilts and perform as clowns, The Humming Mosquito. (Quote by - David Mason)
Nick was special to me because he was similar to what I was like in school -- he was the class clown. (Quote by - Andrew Bennett)
We've tried to make it fun with lots of activities and prizes. There will be a fishing booth, hula hoop give-away, face painting, a clown, lots of fun stuff. (Quote by - Brenda Voss)
Clear Channel will be there playing music .. we're going to have a bounce house, a clown and balloons for the kids. We'll have a T-shirt contest. (Quote by - Melinda Palmer)
Laugh, clown, laugh. This is what I tell myself whenever I dress up like Bozo. (Quote by - Jack Handy)
I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments. (Quote by - Jim Morrison)
I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble. (Quote by - David Boreanaz)
Dare to wear the foolish clown face. (Quote by - Frank Sinatra)
Was a clown. But if it turns out that he was telling the truth, then who else is lying? It's a dark cloud over baseball. (Quote by - Alan Bird)
I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important. (Quote by - Roberto Benigni)
Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers. (Quote by - T.E. Lawrence)
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals. (Quote by - John Steinbeck)
We're not an uptight bunch. We just like to have fun. A lot of coaches like the team to be quiet and focused before a game. The way we focus is to clown around. We think about the task at hand. But we don't worry. We like to have fun, study and practice hard. (Quote by - Tyrus Thomas)
Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally. (Quote by - Karl Rove)
The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother. (Quote by - Elinor Smith)
To say the traditional Scottish dress makes you look like a clown is a direct insult to people of Scottish heritage and those who live in Scotland. (Quote by - Tom Wilson)
Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach'd, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and tho' you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he guggles down like mother's milk. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
When he played, he had that clown reputation. There were a lot of guys like that, but he stood out. As a pitching coach, he's going to be awesome. He's personable, easygoing, and he seems excited to be here. It will be good. We don't need to work all the time. (Quote by - Tim Hudson)
I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves. I've directed all-female groups and I've been in them, and I find them really refreshing and challenging. When it comes right down to it, it's talented people really that I like working with rather than male or female. (Quote by - Amy Poehler)
I heard the splash; I thought it was a fish. I kind of stepped away, and then I heard all the booing. I thought they were booing me for stepping away from the ball. I mean the shock, the thing goes through your body, and you are like, 'wow, this is really a tough crowd.' Then you look up and you see some clown having an identity crisis swimming around. (Quote by - Jeff Sluman)
I really don't know what these clowns have in mind. It's just a joke. (Quote by - Timothy Butler)
You must know the difference between dissent from the Iraq war and the war on terror and undermining it. And any American that undermines that war, with our soldiers in the field, or undermines the war on terror, with 3,000 dead on 9/11, is a traitor. Everybody got it? Dissent, fine; undermining, you're a traitor. Got it? So, all those clowns over at the liberal radio network, we could incarcerate them immediately. Will you have that done, please? Send over the FBI and just put them in chains, because they, you know, they're undermining everything and they don't care, couldn't care less. (Quote by - Bill O'Reilly)
All I did sometimes was get home from school and do homework until I went to bed. There was just no clowning around. (Quote by - Eugene Flood Jr)
A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character. (Quote by - Emmett Kelly)
A hungry clown is half mad. (Quote by - French Proverb)
He's a big clown, so it makes sense he has trainers who are just a joke. (Quote by - Floyd Mayweather Sr)
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments. (Quote by - Jim Morrison)
A clowns nose is the smallest mask. (Quote by - Toon Hermans)
There is no question that [Dan] Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly realized that the best diversion from Bush is to put on a clown show. (Quote by - Tim Robbins)
We're going to have a really cool bunge wall, a rock wall, a clown – something for all the kids. (Quote by - Brandee Bryant)
A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
