Best 142 quotes in «clown quotes» category

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.

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

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.

The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.

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

The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.

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.

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

The stand up, everything was accidental. I never grew up and was the class clown and had to get the attention. It was - it really is, I have a career despite myself.

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.

There's nothing like a clown with a boner to remind you that you're having a nightmare.

There are a lots of clowns in our family - our house is a fun house.

Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman.

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

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

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.

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

Trump has officially changed his name to Ronald because he's such a clown, and in sympathy his toupée is changing its name to Bozo.

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.

Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.

Truth be told, when you start your career out as a clown, you don't consider yourself a writer.

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

What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.

We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

Well, the clown suit is a riot, too.

You have to be kind of alerted to the fact that clowns are scary and then you can't look at them the same way again. There's something very sinister about them... There's something very tragic about them as well. The last thing they are is funny.

When you write, you can hide behind your words. When you talk, you are up front, like the clown in the midway booth; and passersby can bean you with a ball.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

When fighting clowns, always go for the juggler.

When I did the video for "Piledriver Waltz," I was thinking about rodeo clowns, and how they're risking their lives just to keep an entire arena laughing. They're in danger!

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them.

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

A clown makes you laugh it doesn't mean he knows how to perform a surgery.

Good madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool.

Be a clown, be a clown All the world loves a clown Show ‘em tricks, tell ‘em jokes And you’ll only stop with top folks.

Captain Tervitt had been a real captain, for many years, on the lake boats. Now he had a job as a special constable. He stopped the cars to let the children cross the street in front of the school and kept them from sledding down the side street in winter. He blew his whistle and held up one big hand, which looked like a clown's hand, in a white glove. He was still tall and straight and broad-shouldered, though old and white-haired. Cars would do what he said, and the children, too.

Despair is the constant companion of the clown.

God is just one more Clown In this Circus of mine (from song "no tunnel too dark")

A red nose is the clown's mask and my moustache is mine.

Be careful with the mask. You may get used to it.

Christmas was almost four months in the rearview mirror, and there was something awful about Christmas music when it was nearly summer. It was like a clown in the rain, with his makeup running.

Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown —more interesting for everybody.

Don’t try to make everyone happy; you can’t. The only ones who try are clowns.

Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping. All the kind of the Launces have this very fault. I have received my proportion, like the prodigious son, and am going with Sir Proteus to the Imperial's court. I think Crab, my dog, be the sourest-natured dog that lives. My mother weeping, my father wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat wringing her hands, and all our house in a great perplexity, yet did not this cruel-hearted cur shed one tear. He is a stone, a very pebble stone, and has no more pity in him than a dog. A Jew would have wept to have seen our parting. Why, my grandam, having no eyes, look you, wept herself blind at my parting. Nay, I'll show you the manner of it. This shoe is my father. No, this left shoe is my father. No, no, this left shoe is my mother. Nay, that cannot be so neither. Yes, it is so, it is so -- it hath the worser sole. This shoe with the hole in it is my mother, and this my father. A vengeance on't! There 'tis. Now, sir, this staff is my sister, for, look you, she is as white as a lily and as small as a wand. This hat is Nan, our maid. I am the dog. No, the dog is himself, and I am the dog -- O, the dog is me, and I am myself. Ay, so, so. Now come I to my father: 'Father, your blessing.' Now should not the shoe speak a word for weeping. Now should I kiss my father -- well, he weeps on. Now come I to my mother. O, that she could speak now like a wood woman! Well, I kiss her -- why, there 'tis: here's my mother's breath up and down. Now come I to my sister; mark the moan she makes. Now the dog all this while sheds not a tear nor speaks a word!

He thought he saw some horses, too, and a clown, but it was the faces of all those dead raptors that really bothered him. And maybe that clown a little bit.

Hey. You know what the shark said to the clown?” “No.” “You taste funny.

If a media is not criticizing the government, then that media is not a media but just a clown of the government!