Best 142 quotes in «clown quotes» category

I just always had a penchant for performing for people.I'm a jackass clown.

I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

I'ma be here for a while. None of these clowns can hurt me.

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

I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown?

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

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

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

I'm scared of clowns.

I'm not sure how a world leader reacts to the work of a clown.

I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.

In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.

I listen back, and I hear what's there, and I know in my heart, in my gut, that we [The Replacements] were the real deal. No one can take that away. You can call us buffoons, or clowns or whatever. But when we wanted to, we were as good as anybody.

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

I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

I suppose that I'm fairly comfortable with the clown hat on.

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

I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.

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

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

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.

I was never into candy and games and clowns.

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

I was the class clown, but I was a reluctant class clown because I was always and still am somewhat embarrassed by performing. I have terrible stage fright, and I don't like being in front of people.

I would borrow my mom's red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown!

Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.

Life is a series of ups and clowns. Make it worth your wild!

Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.

Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost

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

It seems a fine line between being a matador and being a rodeo clown

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.

I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.

I wanted to be a clown when I was a kid, so I love interacting and goofing around with kids.

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

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

My mother-in-law is obsessed with clowns.

Nobody likes a clown at midnight

Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am.

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

Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn't allow myself. But with this accent I can do it. I can talk with death in person because I am a clown. Yes. And I am proud to be a clown - very much.

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.

Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker.

Sarah Palin is to women what John Wayne Gacy was to birthday clowns.

No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

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.

Strip those clowns down to nudity, shove the chrome where they doo doo be.

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

There is no question that [Dan] Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly realized that the best diversion from Bush is to put on a clown show.