Clown Quotes · Page 4

“Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them”

— Harper Lee

“Sunshine, the old clown, rims the room.”

— John Updike

The first thing I wanted to be was a clown.

— Adam Page

I was a class clown, never got good grades.

— Redfoo

“Be careful with the mask. You may get used to it.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

Behind this is smile, is a sad clown...

— Dhanu

Clowns are meant to make people smile. That's my goal.

— Colleen Ballinger

I was a class clown; the nuns didn't like that.

— Bobby Cannavale

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

— Tom Segura

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

“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

Hawley may be a clown, but he's clever, too. He knows White men feel they're facing a crisis, and he plans to…

— Jonathan Capehart

I'm training to become a giggle doctor. It's a kind of hospital clown who changes the atmosphere on the ward and helps…

— Nina Conti

I've never been naturally fashion conscious. I'm the kind of person who sees a whole outfit in a magazine, runs out and…

— Brooke Shields

I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit…

— Patricia Marx

I was the class podiatrist. I never made it to class clown. I wasn't funny enough. I would examine feet and prescribe…

— Gilbert Gottfried

Chris O'Dowd is a very special talent. He's one of those very, very rare actors who can be the clown, or he…

— Jim Piddock

I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what?…

— Lloyd Kaufman

My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and…

— Richard Simmons

Twitter is basically text messaging. Twitter is a guy you can always elbow in the side and say, "Hey, look, a guy…

— Chris Hardwick

In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a…

— Frank McCourt

With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the…

— Dean Koontz

I wasn't a class clown, I never developed this comedic flair as a kid. Even when I decided to become an actor,…

— Steve Carell

O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever…

— Delmore Schwartz

If there had been a charismatic figure in the United States who could mobilize fears, anger, racism, a sense of loss of…

— Noam Chomsky

I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession…

— Charles Bukowski

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They…

— Fanny Brice

“a clown is a angel with a red nose.”

— J.T. Skies

I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.

— Nathan Lane

BOZO THE CLOWN IS MY MENTOR.

— Wayne Dyer

“Good madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool.”

— William Shakespeare

Work and fun don't mix...unless you're a clown

— Ramandeep Singh

He's fat and a clown, Bill, a fat clown for all to see.

— Eamon Dunphy

A cupcake is just a muffin with clown puke topping.

— Charlie Brooker

I hate clowns. You can't see what they're thinking.

— Geraldine McCaughrean