Clown Quotes

#1. Hey guys, what did the lion say after eating the clown?" The boys stopped. One looked confused, but the other grinned. "What?" he called. "I don't know about you, but I think that tasted kind of funny.

Erin Nicholas

#2. She saw Hitler as "a clown who looked like Charlie Chaplin." Like many others in America at this time and elsewhere in the world, she could not imagine him lasting very long or being taken seriously.

Erik Larson

#3. PROPAGANDA (PROP-A-GANDER)

An evil grin behind a smiling clown's mask

Kamil Ali

Kamil Ali

#4. If a media is not criticizing the government, then that media is not a media but just a clown of the government!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.

Sarah Hall

#6. I was like the family clown. The middle child entertaining. I was a lousy student, but interestingly, the nuns always let me write plays or do drawings, endless special projects.

Eileen Myles

#7. You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

Sofia Vergara

#8. I was a timid little guy when I was a kid. I used humor as a defense; I became the class clown. But deep inside, I felt real vulnerable.

Mike Huckabee

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

J. Cole

#10. When I'm with my friends I'm funny, but I don't feel like I'm a funny clown.

Nora Dunn

#11. It Follows, can become a great story.
...
So far the "Clown", is awesome it shows something incredible...

Deyth Banger

#12. The last time I went to a festival without a hat, two things happened. One: I got sunstroke. Secondly, I had to buy what can only be described as a Jamiroquai hat, which was sartorially incorrect - I'm saying that as a Jamiroquai fan. That was a disaster. I looked like a small clown.

Jamie Cullum

#13. I'm not a clown but I'm not an academic either.

Tom Verlaine

#14. I was never into candy and games and clowns.

Harry Shearer

#15. I've been other things beside a clown. I have sold insurance, too.

Truman Capote

#16. I hesitate to say I was the class clown, but that was kind of how I interacted with other kids in school, and I very much appreciated the responses I got. The validation of laughter is often a very heavy psychological balm.

Simon Pegg

#17. There is no question that [Dan] Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly realized that the best diversion from Bush is to put on a clown show.

Tim Robbins

#18. As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.

Simon Baker

#19. I was the hallway clown in high school.

J. B. Smoove

#20. The only exercise guru then was Richard Simmons - a flamboyant fuzzy-haired creature who vaguely resembled a gay Bozo the Clown, unless that's redundant, which I, thank God, have no way of knowing, having no, thank God, direct

Carrie Fisher

#21. I was never the class clown, and I've no idea where the comedy came from.

Jasper Carrott

#22. I was a class clown since second grade.

Eric Andre

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

Pablo Picasso

#24. The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.

Bruce Springsteen

#25. Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

Tina Weymouth

#26. You see, this heart, won't settle down; just like a child, running, scared, from a clown.

Demi Lovato

#27. It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a sarcastic spoof on culture, which allows us to laugh at ourselves - but in a way that is inclusive of everyone.

RuPaul

#28. Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.

Stephen King

#29. Some directors are really strong on action, manhandling you around the set; others are very focused on setting up the camera shots and practically ignore you. You have to get used to introverts, extroverts, directors who clown around for the crew, and the odd one who's monosyllabic.

Gina Bellman

#30. As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.

Gemma Ward

#31. 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

#32. I suppose that I'm fairly comfortable with the clown hat on.

Nick Rhodes

#33. Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society.

Scott Simon

#34. I've never been naturally fashion conscious. I'm the kind of person who sees a whole outfit in a magazine, runs out and buys it but looks like a clown.

Brooke Shields

#35. A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a lecture in a high squeaky voice from inhaling helium. It is written nowhere in the math of probability theory that one may have no fun.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#36. I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.

Wavy Gravy

#37. You might be a redneck if your sophisticated show-biz cousin is a rodeo clown.

Jeff Foxworthy

#38. Why did he warn me about a circus? Isn't it supposed to be a fun place? Unless you meet the clown, of course.

Cameron Jace

#39. The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of mediocrity must be satisfied. Amuse the people, be their clown, give them platitudes about which they can laugh, shadows of truth which they can hold as truths.

Aleksandar Hemon

#40. I was always getting in trouble because I was the class clown but I always made teacher laugh. I remember I thought I was going to fail that class but I ended up passing it and I really think it was only because I was good entertainment for her.

Larry The Cable Guy

#41. Call me Autolycus. Well, no, don't. Although I am, like that unfunny clown, a picker-up of unconsidered trifles. Which is a fancy way of saying I steal things

John Banville

#42. 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

#43. Christmas was almost four months in the rearview mirror, and there was something awful about Christmas music when it was nearly summer. It was like a clown in the rain, with his makeup running.

Joe Hill

#44. A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King,
But God be with the Clown,
Who ponders this tremendous scene
This whole experiment in green,
As if it were his own!

Emily Dickinson

#45. Eve wasn't sure what right the clown had to butcher the poor girl like that. In fact, most horror movies made her angry. Though the 'final girl' usually got out alive, she was stripped of so much by the time the credits rolled.

Christa Carmen

#46. There is no room in baseball for a clown.

Chuck Dressen

#47. I understand you love him and UR down/ But that don't mean you gotta be his clown.

Meg Cabot

#48. There was a clown that tried to eat me as a boy, in my nightmares. Years later I found a clown for booking online who resembled him named Patches. Needless to say, Patches is dead now.

Thom Yorke

#49. I have frantically played the clown in order to distangle myself from these painful relationships, only to wear myself out as a result.

Osamu Dazai

#50. The Blue Beetle was not a clown car," I said severely. "It was a machine of justice.

Jim Butcher

#51. I was always the class clown, although many teachers view the class clown as a trouble maker. But I always had good grades, so the only thing my parents were told was that while I was intelligent, I talked too much.

Godfrey

#52. Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.

Karl Rove

#53. For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying ... but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.

Stephen King

#54. Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It's less predictable, it's more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee.

Steve McConnell

#55. Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.

Martin Luther

#56. Playing the clown is not an easy task. Clowns, I have come to believe, are placed upon the earth solely to fill the needs of others, while running perilously close to "Empty" themselves.

Alan Bradley

#57. I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.

Walid Jumblatt

#58. The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.

Thomas Sydenham

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

Marilyn Manson

#60. I was left with the choice of wearing the pants either around my ankles or hitched up to my bellybutton. I decided the latter was the lesser of evils, so I went downstairs to have what would likely be the strangest meal of my life while dressed like a clown without makeup.

Ransom Riggs

#61. The devil can be a clown of prizes in moments like these. Moments of knowing you've ventured too far down the wrong path and all you can do is accept more prizes ...

J.M. August

#62. I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

#63. Damn everything but the circus! ... The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the back of a galloping horse, make people laugh with a clown's mouth, orchestrate twenty lions.

E. E. Cummings

#64. I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.

J. Cole

#65. I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy.

Matthew Settle

#66. NOW CAME OUR INTRODUCTION to Smiley, former rodeo clown, whose name outside the costume might as well have been Cranky as Hell.

Ivan Doig

#67. I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer.

Dick Van Dyke

#68. I try to play the stiff, as much as I can, and play it dry, which is sometimes hard for me. My problem with comedy is to want to clown it up, but she's the funny one. Those are her jokes, not mine. For me, it's a lot of not doing anything. I just don't want to muck it up.

John Cho

#69. Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them." "Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

Harper Lee

#70. I remember having friends in high school that did the theater department stuff, and I always wanted to try it but never had the guts to. I was the class clown but could never really build up the courage to try it. I took one acting class and really enjoyed it.

Robert Buckley

#71. The blue jay playing around the cabin means you are going to have plenty of good times and fun. The blue jay is a clown and bounces on the ends of branches and turns flips and teases other birds.

Forrest Carter

#72. I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person.

Janeane Garofalo

#73. I've always been a performer. I love doing impressions of people and being the clown.

Emma Rigby

#74. I'm more of a clown, a tragic clown. Yeah. I just like humor to come out of characters.

Amy Sedaris

#75. Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself.

Patch Adams

#76. I learn from him around the campfire that he and the Howlers, Thistle, Screwface, Clown, Weed, and Pebble - the dregs of my old House - stayed no longer than a day after I disappeared.

Pierce Brown

#77. Clowns have no respect for pie.

Demetri Martin

#78. I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.

Bas Rutten

#79. I am a clown...and I collect moments.

Heinrich Boll

#80. I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.

Richard Simmons

#81. On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy.

Bobby Jones

#82. Nobody likes a clown at midnight

Stephen King

#83. Well, that's just all kinds of creepy," Puck muttered at my side, giving the doll a look of alarm. "If you see any clowns, do me a favor and don't point them out, okay? i'd rather live without the nightmares."
I was about to snap at him for putting the thought of killer clown dolls in my head ...

Julie Kagawa

#84. '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

#85. It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

Becky G

#86. What do you love?"
"You for doing this - you in general. Chocolate, sushi, malt shakes. All things I'm highly deficient in at the moment. Well, other than you."
"What do you hate?"
"Chloe and clowns. Come to think of it, Chloe is a clown.

Addison Moore

#87. I wasn't a class clown, because nuns have no sense of humor. They have rulers.

Dan Alatorre

#88. I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown?

Joe Pesci

#89. The medical clown connects with patients in a way that is markedly different from the rest of their experience in the hospital.

Jeff Raz

#90. I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

Steven Wright

#91. Out o' th' moon, I do assure thee. I was the man in the moon when time was,
--Stephano
(Act II, scene 2, lines 136-137)

William Shakespeare

#92. Clowns make me ... Think.

James Marsters

#93. If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.

Red Skelton

#94. zoomable from a hundred miles per yard clown to about ten.

Richard Powers

#95. CASSIO: Dost thou hear, my honest friend?
CLOWN: No, I hear not your honest friend, I hear you.
CASSIO: Prithee, keep up thy quillets.

William Shakespeare

#96. I always was a funny guy, the class clown. I had a very funny dad and an extremely funny grandmother.

Charlie Day

#97. With apologies to Judy Garland and Cole Porter, all the world does NOT love a clown. John Wayne Gacy might have been the final nail in the coffin in terms of anyone associating clowns with funny (if a bunch of clowns die, do they all fit into one coffin?)

Christopher Lombardo

#98. Sometimes, I get in a mindset where I don't like my own music. I hate yourself and my music because I'm doing it every day. I feel like a clown.

Nicolas Jaar

#99. Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.

Mel Gussow

#100. 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.

Eric Stonestreet