Clown Quotes - Page 4

• Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

  P. T. Barnum

  Circus, Hung, Peg

  Tampa Bay Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January/February 1990.

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

  Robert Klein

  Son, Class, Ran

  "Interview with Robert Klein, Barbara Kline, Linda Ellerbee, Richard Haass, Larry King's Children". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 19, 2005.

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

  Norman Rockwell

  Artist, President, Painting

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• I made a living out of being a class clown

  Shannon Hoon

  Class, Made

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• In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.

  David Strathairn

  Party, Order, Crash

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• I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.

  James Gandolfini

  Laughing, Sopranos, Cry

  "The Sopranos: Pilot". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• 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.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Thinking, Serious, Think Big

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• Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns.

  Paul Fussell

  Travel, Serious Person, Ideas

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• and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?

  Charles Bukowski

  Cheater, Laughing, Interesting

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.191, Canongate Books

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• I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Growing Up, Worry, Mind

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• Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.

  Alan Moore

  Lying, Men, Simple

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• 'We really shouldn't look like a church.' I've heard that so much I want to vomit. 'Why?' I ask. 'Do you want your bank to look like a bank? Do you want your doctor's office to look like a doctor's office, or would you prefer your doctor to dress like a clown?'

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Doctors, Office, Church

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• It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.

  Marilyn Manson

  Jobs, Theatrical

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• Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Thinking, Agriculture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.97

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• I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

  Hugh Jackman

  Party, Kids, Years

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Jun 18, 2014

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

  Dominic Monaghan

  Class, Used, Fooling Around

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

  Victor Garber

  Laughing, Hardest, Jennifer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?

  Angela Carter

  Laughing, May, Mirth

  Angela Carter (1984). “Nights at the circus”, Vintage

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• I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Tkam, Laughing

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Character, Kids, Thinking

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• I'ma be here for a while. None of these clowns can hurt me.

  J. Cole

  Hurt, Hate, I Hate You

  Song: Return Of Simba

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• People don't buy from clowns.

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Wise, Witty, People

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• I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Class, People, Rooms

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• It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'

  David Sedaris

  Birthday, Nice, Party

  "Ask the Author Live: David Sedaris". Interview, www.newyorker.com. August 14, 2009.

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• A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sheep, Church, Shepherds

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