Clown Quotes - Page 14

• I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy.

  Matthew Settle

  Secret, Littles, Bits

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• I was known for being a bit of a clown. I remember my dad got me aside and said, "Just remember, everybody likes a clown, but nobody pays him." I've often been tempted to call him and say, "Remember how you told me...?" "Yeah?" "Yes, they do."

  Mel Gibson

  Dad, Pay, Likes

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.

  John Leguizamo

  Class

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• With John Wayne Gacy - the serial killer who dressed up as a clown - there's just something about clowns I don't trust. I don't think they're particularly funny. They're a little spooky. Not my sense of humor, I don't laugh at clowns.

  Allison Janney

  Thinking, Laughing, Serial Killer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Ahmadinejad is just a buffoon, sort of a clown on the international scene who tries to be provocative so he can get his name in the paper and his face on television.

  Jimmy Carter

  Names, Trying, Faces

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I can be immature. I know I can when I'm at my dance lessons or something. I become like the class clown. I don't know why. But I can flip in and out of it - if I need to be mature I can be mature, but if I want to have a bit of fun, I'll have a bit of fun.

  Georgia Groome

  Fun, Immature, Mature

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm bored to tears by how many clowns have been leaders. That's why it's important to be the best we can be within our own little lives. This divine comic tragedy just keeps getting darker and darker. It's a pattern. What goes up comes down and what comes down goes up. When the wall is finished being built, someday it will get torn down. And then someday it will be built back up again.

  Teri Gender Bender

  Wall, Bored, Leader

  Source: thequietus.com

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• You can only stare at a clown mask so long. After a few minutes it's no big deal anymore. So people start paying attention to the music instead of what the clown is doing, or what he is wearing, or how cool his spikey hair is.

  Paul Gray

  Hair, Long, People

  "Slipknot top 10: Everything you didn't know about the masked metallers whose bassist Paul Gray has passed away", www.mirror.co.uk. May 25, 2010.

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• Trump is the living embodiment of the main character in the film American Psycho, a symbol of corporate domination on steroids, an out-of- control authoritarian parading and performing unknowingly as a clown, and as a symbol of unchecked narcissism and a bearer of a suffocating culture of fear. He is the symbol of a failed sociality and a declining social order.

  Henry Giroux

  Character, Culture, Psycho

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I am not a rodeo clown, like, "Everything is awesome!" I really worked hard on myself and things and struggled to get to a good place, to a better place.

  Drew Barrymore

  Rodeo

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• [Clowns] gotten a really bad rap in the last few years. People have really given into their own fears and have celebrated their fears in that way. American Horror Story didn't help.

  Alan Tudyk

  Rap, Horror Stories, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Now I think liberals have gone from underreacting to Trump and saying that Trump is just a clown and a buffoon, and that Hillary Clinton's going to kick his ass, to now overreacting, and saying, "Oh my God, 60 million people consciously endorsed a white supremacist for president."

  Van Jones

  Thinking, White, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm more of an 'erotic clown,' it doesn't fall into the female category.

  Roy Haylock

  Fall, Erotic, Female

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Indie rock is just as susceptible - if not more susceptible - to all the gross things about people becoming total ass clowns in music, and only worrying about money and image. I'm not interested in being a part of that.

  Justin Vernon

  Rocks, Indie Rock, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was always writing. I was writing in high school because it was a really competitive school for class clowns; I used to have to write all of my snaps and my disses the night before and then act like I was making it up the next day.

  John Leguizamo

  Writing, School, Night

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

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• [Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we call the people."

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Law, People, Morality

  Source: www.slate.com

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• We have Trumpist (ph) tendencies in Europe. Look up Marine Le Pen in France. Look at the Five Star Movement headed by a clown by profession, Beppe Grillo, in Italy.

  Lionel Barber

  Stars, Marine, Europe

  "The Consequences Of The Brexit Referendum". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 11, 2016.

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• 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.

  Nicolas Jaar

  Hate, Sometimes, Mindset

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Vanity, Greed

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

  Eric Stonestreet

  Kids, Goofing Around, Wanted

  Source: collider.com

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• We never see ourselves as heroes and sometimes when we do it is a hero that has made a fortune as a clown or a boxer. And there is no lasting value in either one of those.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Hero, Boxers, Sometimes

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• There is no one who can move and mime and clown like Bill [Irwin].And Aubrey Plaza, she gets to embody all these different characters. That's what's exciting about this show [X-men], is the unusual casting.

  Lauren Shuler Donner

  Moving, Character, Men

  Source: www.ign.com

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• There's a way of doing comedy that feels true to the person doing it, that doesn't feel like clown-work or silly faces and antics, but that feels real - like you're playing a real person who has real thoughts and feelings, and it's very grounded. I started to watch all comedy through that prism.

  Andy Daly

  Real, Silly, Feelings

  "'A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings'". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.

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• Some comedians you work with, they only turn on when the camera turn on, and they're like sad-faced clowns when the camera's off. And then, they come alive when the camera come on. And you be like, "Oh, damn. You're not a depressed ball of depression, but you are actually funny."

  Ice Cube

  Damn You, Comedian, Cameras

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• I just want to be known as a clown because to me, that's the height of my profession. It means you can do everything - sing, dance and, above all, make people laugh.

  Red Skelton

  Mean, People, Laughing

  "Red Skelton, the sentimental clown, dies at 84". CNN, September 17, 1997.

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