Clown Quotes · Page 12

The clown is an image of us, he is disguised under a funny face, pretending to be happy.

— Efiosiugbore Adebayo

My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.

— Sally Kellerman

Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost

— Anonymous

Kings kill; clowns don't; therefore the clowns of the kings are more valuable than the kings!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.

— Ernest Borgnine

Life is a series of ups and clowns. Make it worth your wild!

— Richard Branson

Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.

— T. E. Lawrence

When I'm with my friends I'm funny, but I don't feel like I'm a funny clown

— Nora Dunn

I hesitate to say I was the class clown, but that was kind of how I interacted with other kids in school,…

— Simon Pegg

For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall…

— Nikolai Gogol

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

— Jack Kerouac

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

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

— Bruce Springsteen

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

Runnin' through your town, huntin' you down, frontin' you down, this fuckin' clown tried to come around for a pound.

— Talib Kweli

We're in Trump times - we're in the time this misogynist hate clown is the leader of the free world, and when…

— Stephen Marche

Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen…

— James Wolcott

There's a way of doing comedy that feels true to the person doing it, that doesn't feel like clown-work or silly faces…

— Andy Daly

“My parents must have seen something in me that I missed. My teachers insisted that I didn’t apply myself… I know that…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh. At the same time, you have people in the…

— Richard Simmons

I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the…

— Becky Lynch

I don't know why people call me a jazz singer, though I guess people associate me with jazz because I was raised…

— Sarah Vaughan

A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Somebody said they seen her heading out of town, now she ran away with a rodeo clown.

— Toby Keith

“i am so freaked out, you could pull a clown out of my ass and i wouldn't be at all surprised.”

— David Levithan

There are a lots of clowns in our family - our house is a fun house.

— Anonymous

I'm a clown. I'm a comedian. Comedy, by design, is a place to explore the subconscious.

— Ramy Youssef

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

— Becky G

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

— Steven Wright

I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.

— James Van Der Beek

'Clown' started as a fake trailer for a nonexistent movie.

— Jon Watts

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.

— Norman Rockwell

When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.

— Stephen King

I had so much joy as a boy: middle child, lots of energy, big emotional life. I was a clown and still…

— Jonathan Majors

I don't think any of my classmates would say I was a class clown.

— Megan Ganz

I used to hate that my lips are gigantic, and now I have huge red clown lips, and I love it.

— Jinkx Monsoon

We runnin around in thousand-dollar clown suits, Better get some boots when Lucifer turn your city to Beirut.

— Ras Kass

The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.

— John Leguizamo

I was raised joking. You clown, you clown people. That's kind of how we come up.

— Chris Redd