Clown Quotes · Page 12

“Marty was about as subtle as a clown with too much coffee”

— SF Lazorro from "Necessary Tension

I think being funny was a coping mechanism because I was always the new kid in school.

— Tom Segura

“For a Clown, Death is Closing the gate on all Daily humiliations.”

— kambiz shabankareh

I had a dream that a clown named dimples keep leaving the radio on in my room

— Anonymous

I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.

— Gad Elmaleh

Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.

— Douglas Coupland

If you own face paint and a bulb horn and you're not a circus clown, you might be uncool.

— Steve Rushin

Socially, it is funny. People are annoyed because, really who is a clown?.

— Eric Davis

In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It…

— Sue Townsend

To my family and friends, I'm very definitely a clown. But do you know what? Doing a drama would almost seem easy…

— Ashley Jensen

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else…

— John Ruskin

I just want to be known as a clown, because to me that's the height of my profession. It means you can…

— Red Skelton

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow…

— Jim Morrison

Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next…

— Emeli Sande

Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in…

— Carole King

I once went with my grandson to a county fair where you shoot a water pistol at the clown's mouth. We came…

— Ruth Westheimer

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to…

— Paul Fussell

“but Ben could see the clown’s face clearly. It was deeply lined, the skin a parchment map of wrinkles, tattered cheeks, arid…

— Stephen King

“He murmured, 'You did it on purpose.' I trembled all over. I might have guessed that someone would detect that I had…

— Osamu Dazai

You have to be kind of alerted to the fact that clowns are scary and then you can't look at them the…

— Reece Shearsmith

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create…

— Tom Robbins

I listen back, and I hear what's there, and I know in my heart, in my gut, that we [The Replacements] were…

— Paul Westerberg

Actually, I was the seventh private explorer but the first Canadian 'space clown.' I never dreamed of going into space; I just…

— Guy Laliberte

What we're seeing now is not just a backlash against feminism. When you look at guys like [Jesse] Helms in the '80s…

— Stephen Marche

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am.

— Bob Dylan

Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.

— William Shakespeare

I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.

— James Gandolfini

I'ma be here for a while. None of these clowns can hurt me.

— J. Cole

You might be a redneck if your sophisticated show-biz cousin is a rodeo clown.

— Jeff Foxworthy

It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.

— Marilyn Manson

My brother told me that I used to clown around with voices as a kid.

— Russi Taylor

He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.

— Benjamin Franklin

Everyone hates clowns," Otis said. "Even other clowns hate clowns.

— Rick Riordan

The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

— Angela Carter

“I would do anything just to see you smile, but I don't have any talent to be a clown anymore.”

— Augusto Branco

Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

— Douglas Coupland

By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made.

— Kate Middleton

I was a class clown. I realized early on feeling very comfortable in front of people.

— Rocky Carroll

Without strenuous preplanning, road food is almost always bad food, sad food, chain food, clown food.

— Jonathan Miles

I was always the wise guy class clown throughout my childhood.

— Rick Nielsen