Clown famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Strip those clowns down to nudity, shove the chrome where they doo doo be.
-- Big Pun -
You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.
-- Bob Dylan -
I would borrow my mom's red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown!
-- Brooke Burns -
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.
-- Charlie Chaplin -
I am a clown, just without the painted smile.
-- Chevy Chase -
I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.
-- Christine Lavin -
I'm not sure how a world leader reacts to the work of a clown.
-- Darrell Hammond -
When fighting clowns, always go for the juggler.
-- Darynda Jones -
For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown.
-- Denis Lavant -
I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.
-- Dominic Monaghan -
Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.
-- Douglas Coupland -
He's fat and a clown, Bill, a fat clown for all to see.
-- Eamon Dunphy -
I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.
-- Ernest Borgnine -
I was never into candy and games and clowns.
-- Harry Shearer -
When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
-- Heinrich Heine -
I'ma be here for a while. None of these clowns can hurt me.
-- J. Cole -
I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.
-- Jacqueline MacInnes Wood -
I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.
-- James Gandolfini -
I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.
-- James Van Der Beek -
It seems a fine line between being a matador and being a rodeo clown
-- Jase Robertson -
The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.
-- John Leguizamo -
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
-- John Steinbeck -
The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
-- Kenzaburo Oe -
Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that clowns eat people.
-- Laurie Notaro -
They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.
-- Lenny Kravitz -
Truth be told, when you start your career out as a clown, you don't consider yourself a writer.
-- Lizz Winstead -
I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.
-- Logan Henderson -
In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.
-- Malcolm Muggeridge -
I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy.
-- Matthew Settle -
I just always had a penchant for performing for people.I'm a jackass clown.
-- Nick Offerman -
I suppose that I'm fairly comfortable with the clown hat on.
-- Nick Rhodes -
When I'm with my friends I'm funny, but I don't feel like I'm a funny clown
-- Nora Dunn -
Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.
-- P. T. Barnum -
Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker.
-- Pauline Kael -
I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
-- Rainn Wilson -
Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.
-- Rainn Wilson -
My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family
-- Robert Klein -
Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost
-- Rubin Carter -
My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.
-- Sally Kellerman -
As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.
-- Simon Baker -
There are a lots of clowns in our family - our house is a fun house.
-- Sophie Ellis Bextor -
At this point, if I were to psychoanalyze myself, I'd have to say I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular person.
-- Tim Duncan -
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.
-- Tim Robbins -
The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
-- Victor Garber -
Do those clowns really believe what they teach?
-- Vladimir Nabokov -
I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.
-- Walid Jumblatt -
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
-- William Shakespeare -
As a clown, you're letting go of all of your bullshit.
-- Caitlin Rose -
You have to be kind of alerted to the fact that clowns are scary and then you can't look at them the same way again. There's something very sinister about them... There's something very tragic about them as well. The last thing they are is funny.
-- Reece Shearsmith -
When you write, you can hide behind your words. When you talk, you are up front, like the clown in the midway booth; and passersby can bean you with a ball.
-- Willard R. Espy -
I was the class clown, but I was a reluctant class clown because I was always and still am somewhat embarrassed by performing. I have terrible stage fright, and I don't like being in front of people.
-- Chris Elliott
