Best 142 quotes in «clown quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was never into candy and games and clowns.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

My mother-in-law is obsessed with clowns.

Nobody likes a clown at midnight

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

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

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

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

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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