Top 178 Clowns Quotes & Sayings

When fighting clowns, always go for the juggler.

Clowns are always creepy!

Kings kill; clowns don't; therefore the clowns of the kings are more valuable than the kings!

My mother-in-law is obsessed with clowns.

I don't have a negative perception of clowns.

I like the clowns from the circus that have more paint on their face. They were all funny and made me laugh. As a kid, I remember the clowns that were all in white reminded me more of death than circus clowns. It can be a scary thing.

I was never into candy and games and clowns.

So many things suddenly made sense for the clowns, for the whole idea. I’d been going through a struggle, particularly after 9/11; I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to say. I still wanted the work to be the same kind of mixture – intense, with a nasty side or an ugly side, but also with a real pathos about the characters – and clowns have an underlying sense of sadness while they’re trying to cheer people up. Clowns are sad, but they’re also psychotically, hysterically happy.

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

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

Do those clowns really believe what they teach?

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.

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

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

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

I hate clowns.

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

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

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

We always talked about the sequel to 'Clown' being called 'Clowns,' like an 'Alien'/'Aliens' sorta thing, where you have multiple clowns. And just really make it, in the way that 'Aliens' was an action movie, do the same thing. Action-horror. That would be great.

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

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

There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns...and clowns. (Bobby Pendragon)

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

I enjoyed clowns when I was a kid going to the circus. Mainly I mean the good clowns, when you go to a circus.

No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

I'm scared of clowns.

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.)

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

Latins are into clowns.

People don't buy from clowns.

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

Clowns make me... Think.

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

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

Clowns don't build institutions, nor do boxers.

Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society.

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

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

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

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

I really didn't want to expand the negative vision of clowns because clowns are not intrinsically scary.

I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.

I'm obsessed with clowns and what they represent and the idea that clowns are supposed to make you laugh, but inevitably they're hiding something. That's how I look at my life.

I don't give a crap about clowns.

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

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

'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred but fascinated me with puppets and dolls, clowns, and stuff like that. I've always been afraid of clowns, and then my fear of puppets came around, and 'Poltergeist' was the perfect combination to scare me with a clown doll.

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

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

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

Class clowns become actors.

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

Everyone hates clowns," Otis said. "Even other clowns hate clowns.

Okay," I said, "what's your biggest fear?" As always, he took a second to think about the answer. "Clowns," he said. "Clowns." "Yup." I just looked at him. "What?" he said, glancing over at me. "That is not a real answer," I told him. "Says who?" "Says me. I meant a real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence." He thought for a second. "Clowns.

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

Clowns have no respect for pie.

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