Clown Quotes · Page 11

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

— Malcolm X

The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.

— Osbert Sitwell

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.

— Vaslav Nijinsky

I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

— Harper Lee

The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

— Patch Adams

I would borrow my mom's red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown!

— Brooke Burns

I thought I wanted to be a clown, because what would be better than making people laugh?

— Andy Grammer

Even clowns have problems. He forced us to be happy but despite her mask is his problem.

— Innah Delos Angeles

Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that…

— Laurie Notaro

I've resigned myself to the fact that the world needs clowns, too, and I was born to be one of them. And…

— Matt Letscher

Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns.

— Jimmy Buffett

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with…

— Thomas Sydenham

Honestly, I was a good kid but I figured out pretty early that I had a gift for making people laugh. I…

— Eric Ladin

We are blessed to not have violence at our shows. People come to our shows and act a clown. When you do…

— Tech N9ne

I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was…

— Anna Faris

It's kind of fun to be a clown. I've always played the clown. The clowns come on, get the biggest, juiciest laughs,…

— Roger Bart

I remember seeing Extreme play with [Debra] Winger and Cinderella. Gary Cherone was wearing purple velvet overalls with no shirt and saddle…

— Patrick Wilson

I took a couple of classes in clowning, but that was more like Lucille Ball kind of slapstick, not Ringling Brothers. But…

— June Diane Raphael

A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Do they still call it infatuation? That magic ax that chops away the world in one blow, leaving only the couple standing…

— Toni Morrison

People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For…

— Hannah Kent

When I first started getting into acting, I was doing improv in acting class, and I had done a serious monologue and…

— Miles Teller

I remember, when I was a kid, I was a class clown, and I got into a lot of trouble for it,…

— Gavin McInnes

Here, kitty, kitty, Chico says. The cover of his cage is still on, making his tiny clown voice slightly muffled. I feel…

— Deb Caletti

“I may be an idiot,” he said gravely, “but I would never eat a hamburger cooked by a clown.”

— Anthony Marra

“I feel like a clown in these oversized clothes. I’m wearing someone else’s T-shirt. Someone”

— Tahereh Mafi

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 just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.

— Greg Kinnear

If you dont like me and I dont even know you, you're a clown in my eyes.

— Anonymous

Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost

— Anonymous

Life is a series of ups and clowns. Make it worth your wild!

— Richard Branson

When I'm with my friends I'm funny, but I don't feel like I'm a funny clown

— Nora Dunn

Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.

— T. E. Lawrence

Somebody said they seen her heading out of town, now she ran away with a rodeo clown.

— Toby Keith

“i am so freaked out, you could pull a clown out of my ass and i wouldn't be at all surprised.”

— David Levithan

Kings kill; clowns don't; therefore the clowns of the kings are more valuable than the kings!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.

— Ernest Borgnine

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

— Steven Wright

I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.

— James Van Der Beek

'Clown' started as a fake trailer for a nonexistent movie.

— Jon Watts