Clown Quotes · Page 5

Gemini can either be a clown or be very serious.

— Anonymous

I made a living out of being a class clown

— Shannon Hoon

I hate clowns. I've mentioned that, right?

— Anonymous

A clown can get away with murder.

— John Wayne Gacy

It is meat and drink to me to see a clown.

— William Shakespeare

I was the hallway clown in high school.

— J. B. Smoove

“Millie? Does the White Clown love you?”

— Ray Bradbury

I did clown training for months.

— Annaleigh Ashford

I was always the class clown. I was always the funny one.

— Leslie Jordan

The more compliance you impose, the more of a clown you become.

— Mariana Fulger

I'm the youngest of four, and I'm always the clown - making the jokes, wanting attention.

— Rose Byrne

When I See A Clown Fish I Automatically Think OMG,Its Nemo :o !

— Anonymous

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

— Maynard James Keenan

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

— Margaret Atwood

I'm not the most open player; I'm not the biggest clown. I just like going into the dressing room easy.

— Kevin De Bruyne

I'm fascinated by the whole clown phobia thing because I personally don't have it.

— Ryan Murphy

The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just…

— Chris Matthews

My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer.…

— Jermaine Dupri

Compared to the typical Zim/Chomsky-spouting grad school clown, a trucker with a screaming eagle hat is a paragon of political nuance.

— David Burge

An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep…

— Jack Kerouac

There is no one who can move and mime and clown like Bill [Irwin].And Aubrey Plaza, she gets to embody all these…

— Lauren Shuler Donner

The Class Clown album was done totally sober. I'd realized what a hell I'd made for myself and I cleaned up completely…

— George Carlin

The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was…

— Bruce Springsteen

I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd…

— Wavy Gravy

In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a…

— Frank McCourt

Twitter is basically text messaging. Twitter is a guy you can always elbow in the side and say, "Hey, look, a guy…

— Chris Hardwick

Whenever the circus would come to town, I would tell Ethan all kinds of kinky clown domination stories involving the leather clown,…

— John S. Hall

When I was young I was on punishment a lot and I used to watch a lot of TV, and I asked…

— Shaquille O'Neal

With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the…

— Dean Koontz

O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever…

— Delmore Schwartz

I wasn't a class clown, I never developed this comedic flair as a kid. Even when I decided to become an actor,…

— Steve Carell

“To make matters worse, the CEO was wearing a red clown’s nose made of foam. It was the UK’s Comic Relief Day,…

— Leander Kahney

I'm not a clown but I'm not an academic either.

— Tom Verlaine

I am a clown...and I collect moments.

— Heinrich Böll

My mother-in-law is obsessed with clowns.

— Seth

“This is like a reverse clown car.”

— Tal M. Klein

I hate clowns. You can't see what they're thinking.

— Geraldine McCaughrean

“Self-proclaimed kings are often seen as jesters.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

The Jan. 6 committee is a clown show. It is a joke.

— Nick Searcy

I was never into candy and games and clowns.

— Harry Shearer