Circus Quotes · Page 5

Just because you got the monkey off your back doesnt mean the circus has left town.

— George Carlin

Someone like Raj Kapoor is born once in 100 years. He was a one-man circus all by himself.

— Randhir Kapoor

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

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

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

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Gurpreet Ghuggi

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

— Camila Alves

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

— Anonymous

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

— George Carlin

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones,…

— Maxim Gorky

Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond.

— Tony Dungy

The thing that's interesting about wire walking is that we never get to see it other than looking up. It's like a…

— Robert Zemeckis

Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.

— Sam Simon

You name it, I've done it: circus, Chautauqua, variety, movies, stage, radio, TV, personal appearances.

— Jackie Coogan

I think there are times when I believe God welcomes the circus into our lives to give us an opportunity to show…

— Tony Dungy

“You can’t avoid The Circus. At some point we all make the list. Don’t be afraid of The Circus.”

— William H. McRaven

“‎The world is fantastic...it's the ultimate absurd circus and I am shot from a cannon into the energy!”

— Michael Fitzsimmons

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

“Circuses are about entertainment and juggling and animals and all that shit. Sideshows are about freaks, about people and the limits of…

— Chris Abani

Presidential primary debates are an important part of our political process. But the media has wrested complete control from the parties and…

— Mark McKinnon

What's funny is sometimes I'll watch a movie that's so gorgeously simple, it's like two characters in a house and I think,…

— Julio Torres

I like the clowns from the circus that have more paint on their face. They were all funny and made me laugh.…

— Peter Stormare

One can do a film and not work for six months, but on TV, you have to produce good content every week.…

— Kapil Sharma

I grew up in a bit of a vacuum. And as a kid, you see 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' and you're like,…

— Iliza Shlesinger

“The building was crowded with men and women packing stuff into boxes and bags, leather stuff, nylon, canvas, and rubber stuff, with…

— Richard Schmitt

Well, he's got a much bigger circus to play with, and he has a lot more financing available, and he has a…

— Michael Madsen

Contrology is not a system of haphazard exercises designed to produce only bulging muscles. ... Nor does Contrology err either by over-developed…

— Joseph Pilates

“The circus is a jealous wench. Indeed that is an understatement. She is a ravening hag who sucks your vitality as a…

— Henry Ringling North

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

— Gary Yourofsky

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

— Paul Verlaine

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 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

“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

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

— Stephen Dorff

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

— Sarah Sherman

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

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

— Edie Falco

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

— Steven Wright

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

— Groucho Marx

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

— Jerry Lewis