Clown Quotes

356 Clown quotes by 293 unique authors

You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who make people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also, he has severe… — Jack Handey
Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that clowns eat people. — Laurie Notaro
There is no room in baseball for a clown. — Chuck Dressen
The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs. — Thomas Sydenham
I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis. — Emily Procter
Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world. — Tina Weymouth
We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns. — Nicolas Cage
The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it. — Osbert Sitwell
Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter. — Mel Gussow
Happiness is not a circus clown rolling around in a big tractor tire so that his arms and legs form 'spokes.' Happiness is when he… — Jack Handey
I made a living out of being a class clown — Shannon Hoon
Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it… — Fanny Brice
If you're a circus clown, and you have a dog that you use in your act, I don't think it's a good idea to also… — Jack Handey
Why is it that we will laugh at a man in a clown outfit, but we won't laugh at a man just walking down the… — Jack Handey
I remember how, in college, I got that part-time job as a circus clown, and how the children would laugh and laugh at me. I… — Jack Handey
Laugh, clown, laugh. This is what I tell myself whenever I dress up like Bozo. — Jack Handey
What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind. — Henry David Thoreau
Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living. — Douglas Coupland
I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm… — Roland Joffe
You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you. — Bob Dylan
No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions, most of these… — Carl Hiaasen
I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very… — Anna Faris
The clown has great importance as part of the search for what is laughable and ridiculous in man. We should put the emphasis on the… — Jacques Lecoq
It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a sarcastic spoof on… — RuPaul
I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing… — Bas Rutten

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