Circus Quotes · Page 6

That's bad luck: three on a midget. From "At The Circus

— Groucho Marx

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.

— Steven Wright

I'm shocked to be saying this, but as a child, I never went to a circus. It cost too much.

— Jerry Lewis

My goal is is to bring everybody under the same freak-show circus umbrella.

— Sarah Sherman

Being an actor is pretty much like being in the circus.

— Stephen Dorff

Mother elephants in the circus cannot help their babies, but we can,

— Edie Falco

I always wanted to play baseball and join the circus. Now I have both.

— Graig Nettles

Our family life is a circus without a net. But I wouldn't have it any other way.

— Ernie Johnson Jr

If I had been born in the circus, my parents would have pushed me on that little high wire at four years…

— Philippe Petit

I'm the first has-been star singer ever to sing with the circus. I mean, Presley sang with the circus, but that was…

— Tiny Tim

'Geronimo' was a huge amount of work. That involved 80-piece orchestras and Indians and Tuvans and all kinds of crazy people on…

— Ry Cooder

CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

— Ambrose Bierce

Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of…

— Drew Barrymore

KISS Psycho Circus is my current favorite. I'm not ashamed to say that I prefer the mindless fun of blasting hordes of…

— Mike Wilson

My house is basically a trailer. I live a circus lifestyle. I'm always moving. It's not always easy for people that live…

— Nicolas Cage

“Lord knows, I need a little action tonight or my vagina might just run off and join the circus.”

— Harper Sloan

And, now, come to this spot Where the spotlight is hot And you'll see in the spotlight A Juggling Jott Who can…

— Dr. Seuss

I feel so guilty when I see orcas performing their stupid tricks in their little swimming pools, and when I see circuses…

— Sam Simon

Just because you are fine with your life being a circus where you are the ring master, doesn't mean the rest of…

— Eugene Nathaniel Butler

Wait. Far be it for me to say this" — Hamish looked around the compartment — "and if anyone tells Uncle Eddie…

— Ally Carter

It's like running away to join the circus, everyone wants to do it when they're young but then you grow up and…

— Katie McGrath

“Circus performers and variety shows will never captivate me in the same way as steppes or rainforests, or the sky's uncountable galaxies…

— Jostein Gaarder

So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept…

— Sara Gruen

At any moment, one company stands in the spotlight of the middle ring in the stock market's never-ending circus. It may not…

— Alex Berenson

They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They…

— Erin Morgenstern

“Orion sniffed. "Good. Then, Worthy Centaur, perhaps you could give me a ride to the village on your back. Then I can…

— Eoin Colfer

“All the world's a circus. Sometimes you choose your act and sometimes it's assigned to you. I had roamed the arena for…

— Mia Sheridan

... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't…

— Jerry Garcia

I can't believe that Hillary Clinton wants the world to think that whenever she gets into political trouble, she's going to have…

— Joe Klein

You're not going to be able to look like anyone else, no matter how hard you try, unless you're a mimic, then…

— Morgan Freeman

I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary…

— Paul Verlaine

Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced…

— Gary Yourofsky

We love against the night, burning like stars against the darkness of bread and circuses.

— Anonymous

We're like a travelling circus... We're always on the go.

— Camila Alves

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

— George Carlin

Animals are the traditional circus. It's what people remember from their childhood.

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

Politicians have made people cry... politics has become a circus.

— Gurpreet Ghuggi

So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.

— Woodrow Wilson

I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.

— Georgie Fame

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

— Erin Morgenstern