Clown Quotes · Page 9

A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.

— Emmett Kelly

“It’s worse than you can imagine. An idiot surrounded by clowns.”

— Michael Wolff

No, there's other actor who could play The Clown in Slipknot.

— Shawn Crahan

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.

— Edward R. Murrow

Even if I told my mom I wanted to be a clown or live in the forest, she would be down.

— Kyle

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to…

— Trent Reznor

Strip those clowns down to nudity, shove the chrome where they doo doo be.

— Big Pun

You see, this heart, won't settle down; just like a child, running, scared, from a clown.

— Demi Lovato

I think I'll be a clown when I get grown… There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks…

— Harper Lee

You never have a comedian who hasn't got a very deep strain of sadness within him or her. Every great clown has…

— Margaret Rutherford

“Though I did come to a rather morbid conclusion in those few fleeting seconds: Better a dead clown in my apartment than…

— Darynda Jones

“He referred to the human brain as a clown car parked between our ears. Open the doors and the clowns pile out.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

We knew we were different, even from our elementary school days. We were the class clowns; we engaged with people differently. We…

— Drew Scott

Theres no shame if you play a role of a clown on stage than to know that youre played like a clown…

— Myself

[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered…

— Jeffrey Rosen

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of…

— Wavy Gravy

He handed her her cap and sunglasses, then put on his own while she frowned at them. “What is this?” “A disguise.”…

— Nora Roberts

I was always the Class Clown and over time became very good at it. I started doing comedy on stage at the…

— Bill Engvall

You must know the difference between dissent from the Iraq war and the war on terror and undermining it. And any American…

— Bill O'Reilly

Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right…

— Rose Macaulay

I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I…

— Snoop Dogg

My career actually started in the second grade as class clown. That's no joke. I was always making people laugh, and it…

— Ian Ziering

Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don't want to be…

— Eric Weiner

Until about sixth grade I was pretty quiet and wouldn't consider myself a class clown during those years. Once I got into…

— Aubrey Plaza

“I am so freaked our right now, you could pull a clown out of my ass and I wouldn't be at all…

— John Green

Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.

— Gordon Lightfoot

I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.

— Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

There was a time I was willing to be a clown for people who I felt were the perfect person for me.

— Paul Dini

“Sad clowns break my heart They slowly fade away From the face of the earth While making others smile.”

— B.A

That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to clown college!

— Nikhil Saluja

I don't know what happiness is. I don't know what sweet caress is. Still, I'm always laughing like a clown.

— Bob Marley

I'm a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be both…

— Andy Samberg

I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.

— Carrot Top

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

— Chris Lilley

“I've been other things beside a clown. I have sold insurance, too.”

— Truman Capote

I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.

— Rose Byrne

Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.

— Pablo Picasso

In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a…

— David Strathairn

The industrys a circus with a bunch of clown with it. You hear it from the workers, I dont fuck around with…

— Jadakiss

I was the class clown in school, and I was also a child actor - not on television, but in the theatre.

— Dean Haglund