Top 470 Circus Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
Being an actor is pretty much like being in the circus.
I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.
At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
I remember I had a boyfriend a long time ago who said, 'You need to change your name; you sound like a circus performer.'
I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.
As a kid, I used to be equal parts drawn to and horrified of the circus. They would have these beautiful canvas posters for Lobster Boy, bearded women, and this and that.
As incredible as television has become, it often feels like a sideshow in what has become a daily three-ring media circus.
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
I think there are times when I believe God welcomes the circus into our lives to give us an opportunity to show that there’s another way to live and respond to things.
When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself reflected in all forms and all formlessness.
'Geronimo' was a huge amount of work. That involved 80-piece orchestras and Indians and Tuvans and all kinds of crazy people on that thing. That's a real circus, that score.
These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.
On a film, you start to get closer and closer with the people you're working with, and it becomes like this circus act or this travelling family.
KISS Psycho Circus is my current favorite. I'm not ashamed to say that I prefer the mindless fun of blasting hordes of creatures to exploration or adventure games.
You just can't imagine the kind of guy he was without seeing him play. He was a circus, a play, a movie, all rolled into one.
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.
So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?
Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
I'm very bad at packing. It ends up being a circus, throwing everything in there. You never want to come up short.
I went camping and borrowed a circus tent by mistake. I didn't notice until I got it set up. People complained because they couldn't see the lake.
When I wasn't wrestling, I was always at the circus or at a show watching all these people - 'how do they make their stuff work for their audience?' That used to fascinate me as a child.
I dress well. I travel; I seem to be relatively glamorous for a film guy - which, to me, is like being the fastest midget in the circus.
Improv Olympics, Second City are some of the most tolerant, accepting people. They're like circus folk. They're freaks themselves.
I never doubted my talent. If talent was the circus, then I was its ringmaster and audience, applauding its every move.
We got sick of interviews and performances - for a long time, it came back to doing 'Take on Me.' It became a circus number instead of music.
Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
Other tourists might remember London for Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus, and Big Ben. I'll remember it for its failed multiculturalism.
This circus that's advertised to show and furnish a little amusement for us heathens is owned by a woman, one whose pluck catches my sympathy every time.
I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.
I very much adore people who are outcasts, and I've always loved to be around interesting, circus-type people.
I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus.
Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.
The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
My mother passed at the end of the Circus tour. After that I really needed to take some time and just chill out and get my head together.
In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.
I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions.
I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.
Sometimes, if you go to the same gyms, the fans catch on to that, and they start hanging out at the gyms. It becomes a little bit of a circus.
Trump's 2016 effort could afford to be a shambolic circus; nothing was on the line. He never expected to win and so the rotating cast of campaign managers didn't really matter.
But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.
I can't focus on any one day, because I always have to be ready for the next. It's fun but frenetic - like living in a circus that never stops performing.
We wanted to grow, and we were really over the circus theme at that point. We went out in the woods and got new clothes and all grew beards.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown. I didn't want to be an actor, I wanted to join the circus and entertain people.
Dad was never a Mr. Mum-type of person who'd stay at home. It was a big thing when he was home - he was a circus.
I went to a tent store. "What kind of tent do you need?" "Circus."
When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life with the big cats.
My family traveled with a whole community to European festivals. My mum did gymnastics, freak show performances, and swung fire in the circus, so I followed her footsteps.
I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids' bits. I've always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.
We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.
I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.
I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others’ backs at a circus.
The circus doesn't stop. A federal appeals court has postponed the recall election. How stupid are we? Even our recalls get recalled.
John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.
Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler.
The whole circus surrounding Ed Burke, I knew immediately from my days as a federal prosecutor, was very, very serious.
