Best 137 quotes in «circus quotes» category

If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus.

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a 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 have no complaints about my path and the places it has taken me; enough complaints to fill a circus tent about other things, maybe, but the path I've chosen has always been the right one, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

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

I hate clowns and I would never do anything getting near a clown, I can't go to the circus.

I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

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

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

It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about how the animals are happy and well cared for are lies. Don't be swayed by them. The money behind these shows is huge; there is nothing good about them.

I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.

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

I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.

It's really wonderful to come to work and have each episode be different, in a way. They have similar structure sometimes with the villain, but we can go in any direction we want. If we want to do an episode set in the circus, we can do that. You know how precious that is. That doesn't come around a lot.

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

I've worked behind counters serving food, and I've lived on the circus train, and I've led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I've been a key liner for a newspaper, I've done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things.

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

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.

Life is a circus ring, with some moments more spectacular than others.

Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.

Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us.

Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.

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

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

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

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

No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the chimpanzees. You can't control them. That's why you never see a gorilla in a movie, because the gorilla may decide there'll be no filming.

Love has been described as a three-ring circus: First comes the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, and after that the suffering.

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

Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!

Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.

My class is not a three ring circus.

She turns her head, Bailey catches her eye, and she smiles at him. Not in the way that one smiles at a random member of the audience when one is in the middle of performing circus tricks with unusually talented kittens but in the way that one smiles when one recognizes someone they have not seen in some time.

Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous may happen.

So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions.

Television has always been a conversation. Movies come along and they're kind of like three-ring circuses, and there's a new one next week.

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

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.

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

The circus arrives without warning.

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

Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond.

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

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

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.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

The main thing I like about New Yorkers is that they understand that their lives are a relentless circus of horrors, ending in death. As New Yorkers, we realize this, we resign ourselves to our fate, and we make sure that everyone else is as miserable as we are. Good town.