Clown Quotes

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.

A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own!

I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.

I don't even like clowns. Clowns are not normal people.

The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.

I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

Everyone hates clowns," Otis said. "Even other clowns hate clowns.

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am.

We runnin around in thousand-dollar clown suits, Better get some boots when Lucifer turn your city to Beirut.

I've always been attracted to sad. If you look at Woody Allen movies, he's often playing a sad clown, and it's always been interesting. And angry clown is even more interesting.

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

I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.

When fighting clowns, always go for the juggler.

People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer.

Nobody likes a clown at midnight

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.

Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

I'm the clown you take out of the box and wind up when you need a good laugh. And then, when you're done with me, I go back in my box.

I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.

There was a clown that tried to eat me as a boy, in my nightmares. Years later I found a clown for booking online who resembled him named Patches. Needless to say, Patches is dead now.

The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.

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 cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh.

Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown.

I made a living out of being a class clown

All the world loves a clown.

Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.

There is no room in baseball for a clown.

I'm funny. I'm a comedian. I'm not a clown.

I always tell people that if you get upset over what someone says, imagine him or her with a clown's nose on and you won't get so angry.

I'm scared of clowns.

The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.

My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent with the awful order of things. I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse. I play witch.

Sometimes, I get in a mindset where I don't like my own music. I hate yourself and my music because I'm doing it every day. I feel like a clown.

I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves.

When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.

The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

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

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

The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a 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 whole romanticized sad clown thing, we have to get rid of that. That has to go. That's just getting sick people to voluntarily stay sicker and sadder than they have to be.

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

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

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.

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