Clown Quotes

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

I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.

I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.

Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman.

We never see ourselves as heroes and sometimes when we do it is a hero that has made a fortune as a clown or a boxer. And there is no lasting value in either one of those.

Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.

I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

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

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

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

I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

I sort of think of myself as part priest, part clown.

My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family.

I'm more of an 'erotic clown,' it doesn't fall into the female category.

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

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

The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.

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

Compared to the typical Zim/Chomsky-spouting grad school clown, a trucker with a screaming eagle hat is a paragon of political nuance.

Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand.

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else

The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.

I was always the clown in school. I had a personal put down sense of humor. I wasn't vindictive. I didn't make fun of people.

I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy.

The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

Be. Here. NOW. Don't forget to breathe. When all else fails, grab a clown nose.

The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?

I'm 23 but I got a brain like I'm 32 man, switched the numbers around. Smart kid too, straight-A student, I was just a class clown.

Clowns have no respect for pie.

I wasn't the class clown, but I was starting to become the "crazy guy" at law school, which is the guy who is not so much "crazy" as "annoying."

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

Clowns work as well as aspirin, but twice as fast.

Clowns make me... Think.

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.

Truth be told, when you start your career out as a clown, you don't consider yourself a writer.

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

Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor.

[I'm] a huge defender of clowns around the world.

I'm more of a clown, a tragic clown. Yeah. I just like humor to come out of characters.

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 dramatic work... Now I can’t get a dramatic role to save my life!

I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.