Clown Quotes - Page 5

• Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

  Douglas Coupland

  Children, Scary, Drink

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.

  Christine Lavin

  Teacher, Class

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• Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.

  Rainn Wilson

  Painting, Dwight, Sad Clown

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

  Sally Kellerman

  Class, Should, Said

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• I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

  Roland Joffe

  Stupid, Home, Serious Person

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• I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves.

  Amy Poehler

  Fun, School, Men

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• I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.

  Greg Kinnear

  Kids, Class, Quiet

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• People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer.

  Tom Kenny

  Class, Voice, People

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

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• I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  School, Kids, Class

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• Be. Here. NOW. Don't forget to breathe. When all else fails, grab a clown nose.

  Tom Bergeron

  Noses, Forget, Failing

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• He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.36, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I'm the clown you take out of the box and wind up when you need a good laugh. And then, when you're done with me, I go back in my box.

  Richard Simmons

  Wind, Laughing, Needs

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

  Rachel Dratch

  School, Class, Play

  "Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock comedian Rachel Dratch on her new book and her new baby". Interview with Jesse Thorn, www.avclub.com. May 11, 2012.

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Greatness, Goya, Painter

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• I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

  Chris Lilley

  Dark, Bored, Tears

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Vulgarity Is, Circus, Sometimes

  "London Music in 1888-89 as Heard by Corno Di Bassetto: (later Known as Bernard Shaw) with Some Further Autobiographical Particulars". Book by Bernard Shaw, 1917.

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• Atlas isn't carrying the world on his shoulders, no giant muscular hulk with a sense of responsibility; the world is balanced on a pyramid of clowns, and they are always tooting horns and wobbling and goosing each other.

  Dean Koontz

  Responsibility, Pyramids, Giants

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• Now the freaks are on television, the freaks are in the movies. And it's no longer the sideshow, it's the whole show. The colorful circus and the clowns and the elephants, for all intents and purposes, are gone, and we're dealing only with the freaks.

  Jonathan Winters

  Elephants, Purpose, Gone

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• Well, the clown suit is a riot, too.

  Michael Chiklis

  Suits, Wells, Riot

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm divorced and I've been to the circus and seen the clowns. This ain't my first rodeo.

  Naomi Judd

  Relationship, Circus, Firsts

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• I hate clowns. You can't see what they're thinking.

  Geraldine McCaughrean

  Hate, Thinking, I Hate

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• I hate McDonald's. I don't want to order my dinner by yelling into a clown's mouth. If I want my face in a clown's mouth, I'll tongue kiss Glenn Beck.

  Joan Rivers

  Hate, Kissing, Yelling

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• When all the people covered in tattoos turn about 70 years old, they're going to look like a strange race of melting clowns.

  Dana Gould

  Tattoo, Race, Years

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• I don't even like clowns. Clowns are not normal people.

  Barbara Park

  People, Normal

  Barbara Park (2010). “Junie B. Jones #6: Junie B. Jones and that Meanie Jim's Birthday”, p.14, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Clowns work as well as aspirin, but twice as fast.

  Groucho Marx

  Aspirin, Wells

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