Circus is the magic you should show your children.

I did magic at children's parties when I was a kid.

— Joe Cornish

When you see the numbers who come to the circus, you understand that we don't get that by abusing animals.

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

The circus was born with animals, horses at the start. This is part of our cultural heritage. It's a whole, with clowns and acrobats.

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

Circus is what real life should be like. It's sincerity, feeling, emotions. All real. There are no lies in circus. There are artists working…

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

My father used to describe how he'd love going, early in the morning, out on a location and waiting for the trucks to arrive…

— Barbara Broccoli

I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have…

— George Sidney

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

— Erin Morgenstern

I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or…

— Natasha Lyonne

I don't think you can say something is or isn't magic. That's what was cool about Houdini, because he was a magician who had…

— David Blaine

I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.

— Penn Jillette

It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being a child…

— Dexter Fletcher

Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them…

— Philipp Meyer

Circus clown. That's a new one.

— Anonymous

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

— Bil Keane

Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them…

— Anne Sexton