Top 632 Circus Clowns Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.

[I'm] a huge defender of clowns around the world.

I just had some of the same journalists that panned Electric Circus at the time, they just listened to Universal Mind Control and they loved it. And then they went back to tell me that Electric Circus, if it came out at today, it would've had a different reception. One of them told me, "Hey, man. You need to bring it out again." And I said, "Hey, it's cool. It is what it is."

I'm secretly afraid of clowns. But it's not a secret now...dang.

Clowns make me... Think.

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.

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

People don't buy from clowns.

There aren't a lot of supernatural things that I'm scared or super terrified of, but clowns are definitely on that list.

They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic. Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars… When they depart, they shake hands and embrace like old friends, even if they have only just met, and as they go their separate ways they feel less alone than they had before.

Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society.

Clowns are always creepy!

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

The circus tent was flowing pale in the rain like a fleshy flower lit from within. It seemed to bloom in the downpour. Drops of rain caught on Rafe's eyelashes, blinding him as the circus light struck them. He groped for the flap, that slit in the fabric that would reveal her to him. She was on the rope again, her skirt flashing with tiny mirrors, hair braided with petals. He looked up at her, dizzy with it, seeing her face framed in the parasol. There were bluish shadows around her eyes.

'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns.

My mother-in-law is obsessed with clowns.

Sarah Palin is to women what John Wayne Gacy was to birthday clowns.

Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.

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

Class clowns become actors.

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

Damn everything but the circus.

I don't have a negative perception of clowns.

I hate clowns.

Clowns have no respect for pie.

The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that in the High School hall... The scales of sophistication are struck from your eyes and you see in the circus a gathering of men and women who are able to do things as a matter of course which you couldn't do if your life depended on it.

We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

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

I was never into candy and games and clowns.

The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

When fighting clowns, always go for the juggler.

All people are sad clowns. That's the key to comedy - and it's a buffer against reality.

Clowns are meant to make people smile. That's my goal.

Clowns don't build institutions, nor do boxers.

Don't go to the circus.

Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am.

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

I don't have any issues with clowns - I feel like I owe them an apology in some ways.

To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the turn of last century. Clamp heavy chains around their legs and stake them to the ground. Then beat and terrorize them. After a while you no longer even have to stake the chain; the elephant gives up and just the mere rattle of the chain convinces the elephant there is no hope, so they give up and do whatever it is the circus requires.

Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.

I am not a circus performer.

I have always found clowns really fascinating, especially on film. Even as a kid I was never scared of them.

There was something about clowns that was worse than zombies. (Or maybe something that was the same. When you see a zombie, you want to laugh at first. When you see a clown, most people get a little nervous. There's the pallor and the cakey mortician-style makeup, the shuffling and the untidy hair. But clowns were probably malicious, and they moved fast on those little bicycles and in those little crammed cars. Zombies weren't much of anything. They didn't carry musical instruments and they didn't care whether or not you laughed at them. You always knew what zombies wanted.)

I'm scared of clowns.

Latins are into clowns.

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

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

I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.

I hate clowns. I've mentioned that, right?

I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.

I have not seen 'It' because I don't like horror movies. I don't mess with clowns or demons.

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

Do those clowns really believe what they teach?

Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.

A film set is all about hierarchy, but I always like to think about the circus. In the circus, there's this real sense of tribalism, and they're all on the road together. I don't think the ring leader is more important than the clown. They all work together, and I think that I felt that on 'The East.'

I don't give a crap about clowns.

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

We all have fears, especially when we're younger. I was afraid of clowns.

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.