Circus Quotes

A chess tournament disguised as a circus.

New York was something like a circus performer walking a tightrope an juggling at the same time....It could barely maintain its position, but an movement would tip the whole balance.

I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.

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.

Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don't know why I was surprised to see elephants.

As a child I went to a circus. They had a man shot out of a cannon into a net. I became intrigued with what was going on.

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

Don't go to the circus.

A circus here, a circus there; here today, gone tomorrow. Big Brother watching you. Fear eats the soul.

But you built me dreams instead.

That's bad luck: three on a midget. From "At The Circus

I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.

I can't focus on any one day, because I always have to be ready for the next. It's fun but frenetic - like living in a circus that never stops performing.

My mother passed at the end of the Circus tour. After that I really needed to take some time and just chill out and get my head together.

I treat him [Donald Trump] as an entertainer. I laugh it off. It's like going to the circus and seeing the acrobats and the dancing bears. He's willing to say things that are patently false.

I think there are times when I believe God welcomes the circus into our lives to give us an opportunity to show that there’s another way to live and respond to things.

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.

Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.

Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them in like a circus hand.

Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.

Yaron has elevated the way Australia perceives circus, both nationally and internationally ... I mean remarkable.

Festivals are always fun. I went to a lot when I was younger and had money to go to them. I like playing at festivals. They're always kind of like a big, crazy circus.

The circus goes from town to town, so why run away to join it? It should be, I've decided to wait for the circus to come.

In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus.

I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.

If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd have run after him and never returned to that disgusting circus of blood, that revolting circus of death.

Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.

For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown.

I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.

The American political machinery is awesome to behold in its scale and expense and waste and madness. It's the greatest circus on Earth I suppose.

Mother elephants in the circus cannot help their babies, but we can.

A circus! 100 clowns of injustice have climbed out of the tiny clown car of this court room.

I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.

Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.

When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself reflected in all forms and all formlessness.

I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others’ backs at a circus.

Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.

My class is not a three ring circus.

I'd follow three simple rules: 1) Never go within two kilometres of circus freaks. 2) Never go near the butcher shop in Dublith. 3) Always spend under 300 sen on snacks. That ought to keep me alive!

This is a really good circus. It has lions, tigers, dogs, monkeys and about any other animal act you can think of. There are a lot of great acts, and it's a two part, two hour show.

The days are usually filled with nonsense and every now and again somebody flies by the circus to party on your dime.

I think if you're able to make the music you want and you can do it in the right kind of context, you don't have to be a circus ringleader to be successful.

Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.