Clown Quotes

• A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

  Malcolm X

  Motivational, Wise, Men

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• 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.

  Reece Shearsmith

  Scary, Be Kind, Tragic

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• Be a clown , be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool , play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh .

  Cole Porter

  Play, World Love, Laughing

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• The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Character, People, Fool

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2013). “Don Quixote of La Mancha (Full Text)/ Introductory analysis and literary poem by Atidem Aroha.”, p.437, Alejandro's Libros

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

  Bob Dylan

  Here I Am, Stuck In The Middle, Left

  "Letters: Supernova Sleuth; Gerry Rafferty". Interview with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. January 5, 2011.

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

  Nick Rhodes

  Hats, Comfortable

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2004.

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

  Jase Robertson

  Lines, Rodeo, Matadors

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

  John Steinbeck

  Littles, Seals

  John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Taste

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• Nobody likes a clown at midnight

  Stephen King

  Likes, Midnight

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

  Ernest Borgnine

  Thinking, Knows, Urges

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Business, Life Is

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• I am a clown, just without the painted smile.

  Chevy Chase

  Smile

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

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Acting, Speak

  1600-1 Hamlet to the players. Hamlet, act 3, sc.2, l.38-9.

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• 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.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Humor, Wicked World, Politician

  The Observer, June 17, 1960.

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

  Mel Gussow

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  Mel Gussow (1998). “Theatre on the Edge: New Visions, New Voices”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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

  Dana Gould

  Nightmare, Boners

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

  Rubin Carter

  Men, Dignity, Lost

  Rubin Carter (2011). “The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472”, p.142, Chicago Review Press

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

  Stephen King

  Ideas, Looks, Noses

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call “I” behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.

  Carl Jung

  Fashion, Voice, Doe

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

  Heinrich Heine

  Hero, Literature, Stage

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• When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Animal, Thinking, People

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• Dare to wear the foolish clown face.

  Frank Sinatra

  Faces, Foolish, Dare

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• All the world loves a clown.

  Cole Porter

  World Love, World

  "Be a Clown" (song) (1948)

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• When fighting clowns, always go for the juggler.

  Darynda Jones

  Fighting, Jugglers

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.293, St. Martin's Press

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