Circus Quotes

Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.

I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus.

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

The circus arrives without warning.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

I very much adore people who are outcasts, and I've always loved to be around interesting, circus-type people.

Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.

I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.

When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands

Sometimes the manager must perform with the courage and agility of a circus performer, carefully crossing the highwire between short-term problems and long-term objectives.

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

I'm very bad at packing. It ends up being a circus, throwing everything in there. You never want to come up short.

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!

I always wanted to play baseball and join the circus. Now I have both.

I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.

I have been treated as a freak, rather like the fat lady at the circus.

I went to a tent store. "What kind of tent do you need?" "Circus."

We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.

Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?

I will always remember this summer day in Paris, when I was to perform a great acrobatic move. I can still see myself stepping on the ring of a packed circus along real performers.

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.

All I say is, if you cannot ride two horses you have no right in the circus.

The circus doesn't stop. A federal appeals court has postponed the recall election. How stupid are we? Even our recalls get recalled.

Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the U.S. Post Office.

We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them.

You just can't imagine the kind of guy he was without seeing him play. He was a circus, a play, a movie, all rolled into one.

I'm divorced and I've been to the circus and seen the clowns. This ain't my first rodeo.

Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.

I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.

The bit I love is I really love acting, really, and the circus of being a celebrity is something I'm sort of not interested in. I find it strange.

The two-headed boy in the circus never had such a headache.

Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.

We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home.

One day the good times had to keep on rolling, and all of life's horseshit would turn to circuses.

Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?

What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG!