Clown Quotes - Page 11

• So many things suddenly made sense for the clowns, for the whole idea. I’d been going through a struggle, particularly after 9/11; I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to say. I still wanted the work to be the same kind of mixture – intense, with a nasty side or an ugly side, but also with a real pathos about the characters – and clowns have an underlying sense of sadness while they’re trying to cheer people up. Clowns are sad, but they’re also psychotically, hysterically happy.

  Cindy Sherman

  Cheer, Real, Struggle

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• Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became like the class clown. I became the one who was kicked around.

  Britt Ekland

  Class, Hurtful, Ears

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• I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.

  Joaquin Andujar

  Crazy, Stupid, Thinking

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• Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown.

  John Keats

  Night, Voice, Bird

  "Ode to a Nightingale" l. 61 (1820)

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• I've had this look for about a year. I usually grow this beard out around Christmas. I like to go to malls dressed as Jesus, and I like to then walk around the mall and go, 'No! No! This wasn't what it was supposed to be about, people!' Then if there's a Santa at the mall, I walk up to him and say, 'Listen, fat man, you're just a clown at my birthday party.'

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Jesus, Party

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• You must know the difference between dissent from the Iraq war and the war on terror and undermining it. And any American that undermines that war, with our soldiers in the field, or undermines the war on terror, with 3,000 dead on 9/11, is a traitor. Everybody got it? Dissent, fine; undermining, you're a traitor. Got it? So, all those clowns over at the liberal radio network, we could incarcerate them immediately. Will you have that done, please? Send over the FBI and just put them in chains, because they, you know, they're undermining everything and they don't care, couldn't care less.

  Bill O'Reilly

  War, Iraq, Differences

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• Here, kitty, kitty, Chico says. The cover of his cage is still on, making his tiny clown voice slightly muffled. I feel bad for him under there, just waiting to start his evil little day...Freud walks toward Chico in his slinky fashion, sits under his cage and just stares. We have satanic pets...our pets seem to have made a pact with the devil.

  Deb Caletti

  Fashion, Voice, Evil

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• Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Night, Hanging Around

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [20]

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

  Brooke Burns

  Mom, Red, Lipstick

  "'Miss Guided' Brooke Burns spills secrets" by Shawna Malcom, www.cnn.com. January 4, 2008.

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• 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.

  Logan Henderson

  Class, Trouble, Fitting

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• O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever do before Death's knifeProvides the answer ultimate and appropriate?As I for my part felt in my heart as one who falls,Falls in a parachute, falls endlessly, and feels the vastDraft of the abyss sucking him down and down,An endlessly helplessly falling and appalled clown:This is the way the night passes by, thisIs the overnight endless trip to the famous unfathomable abyss.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Lonely, Fall, Heart

  Delmore Schwartz, “All Night, All Night”

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• Arrogance is a weed which grows upon a dunghill; it is from the rankness of the soil that she has her height and spreadings: witness, clowns, fools, and fellows, who from nothing, are lifted up some few steps on fortune's ladder: where, seeing the glorious representment of honour above them, they are so eager to embrace it, that they strive to leap thither at once, and by over-reaching themselves in the way, they fail of the end, and fall.

  Owen Feltham

  Weed, Growing Up, Fall

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• You might be a redneck if your sophisticated show-biz cousin is a rodeo clown.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Cousin, Redneck, Might

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• I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with me or at me.

  Richard Simmons

  People, Laughing, Court

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

  R. L. Stine

  Class, Laughing, Trouble

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

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• People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.

  Hannah Kent

  Self, People, Doubt

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.234, Pan Macmillan

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• I was always the Class Clown and over time became very good at it. I started doing comedy on stage at the Dallas Comedy Corner where I honed my skills by watching guys like Garry Shandling, Robin Williams, Jay Lena and more.

  Bill Engvall

  Class, Skills, Guy

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• They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I am reminded of the Greek clown who, having seen an archer bring down a flying bird, remarked, sagely: 'You might have saved your arrow, for the bird would anyway have been killed by the fall.'

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Fall, Archer, Arrows

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• I was always getting in trouble because I was the class clown but I always made teacher laugh. I remember I thought I was going to fail that class but I ended up passing it and I really think it was only because I was good entertainment for her.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Teacher, Thinking, Class

  Interview with David Max, www.huskermax.com. April 20, 2006.

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• Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.

  Dan Harmon

  Party, Class, Likes

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• When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don't live.

  Kevin Costner

  Unique, People, Giving

  "Kevin Costner Talks HATFIELDS & McCOYS, Dramatic License in a Historical Tale, and Future Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 16, 2012.

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• Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that clowns eat people.

  Laurie Notaro

  People, Welcome, Stage

  Laurie Notaro (2007). “There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble”, p.275, Villard

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• I know there are kids out there, I want to make sure they all know that driving without braking is not something I recommend, unless you have professional clown training or a comedy background, as I do. It is not something I plan to make a habit.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Kids, Training, Want

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• For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Laughter, Differences, Public Opinion

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• In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Thinking, Fire, Theatre

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