Top 100 Clown Quotes
#1. I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.
Dustin Milligan
#2. I made a living out of being a class clown.
Shannon Hoon
#3. CLOWN. Fare thee well. Remain thou still in darkness: thou shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras ere I will allow of thy wits; and fear to kill a woodcock, lest thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam. Fare thee well.
William Shakespeare
#4. When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.
John Ruskin
#5. Somebody said they seen her heading out of town, now she ran away with a rodeo clown.
Toby Keith
#6. One of the things I'm proudest of is, on my record 'That Was the Year that Was' in 1965, I made a joke about spending $20 billion sending some clown to the moon. I was against the manned space program then, and I'm even more against it now, that whole waste of money.
Tom Lehrer
#7. Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don't portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to come along and stumble into the gold mine. And I think you are also entitled to hold out that hope.
James A. Michener
#8. No one likes a clown who reminds them of why they hate ice-cream-truck music.
Sloane Crosley
#9. Twitter is basically text messaging. Twitter is a guy you can always elbow in the side and say, "Hey, look, a guy in a clown suit just threw up!" And I don't have 400-800 words to say about that, I just wanted to say that one thing.
Chris Hardwick
#10. I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison
#11. I learned that when people see a dachshund, they have to yell, "A wiener dog!" Like "A rainbow!" "A Shriner!" "A shooting star!" "A clown!" "A nudist colony!
Kevin Kling
#12. You'd have looked perfect to me if you'd walked into the room wearing a clown outfit, with a big red nose and huge shoes,' said Rob, giving her a smile that would have made every woman in a three-mile radius melt a little inside. 'Even if you'd sprayed my face with water from a fake flower.
Debbie Johnson
#13. When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.
Stephen King
#14. In 2008, Milton Sheppard opened the Waiter Training School in the Bronx, N.Y., charging $175 for courses, but the business soon ran out of money. He now operates a clown college in the same space.
David Sax
#15. - "What kind of funny?" I asked her. "Funny like a clown onstage? Or funny like a clown hanging around the entrance to a bank?"
-"The bank one.
Lemony Snicket
#16. I may be an idiot," he said gravely, "but I would never eat a hamburger cooked by a clown.
Anthony Marra
#17. The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.
James Hillman
#18. They're [zombies] us, you can also have the wrestler zombie, the clown zombie, the Jay Leno zombie and the nun zombie. I've never seen the clown werewolf or vampire. But because zombies are us, at the lowest possible level, they're a lot more versatile for storytelling.
Tom Savini
#20. I stood and looked at the large framed painting of the Pierrot clown that hung on her wall and sympathised with the tears that rolled down its cheek. Like the clown, I felt contained within a frame, the only difference being my tears were not for public show.
Eileen Munroe
#21. On a day-to-day basis, you get tired of waiting to be accepted. In show business, someone else has to say that you're good or that you're worth going to see or worth taping a show. There's a lot of pain here. There's a lot of pain inside. I'm a sad, crying-on-the-inside kind of clown.
Greg Giraldo
#22. The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.
Elinor Smith
#23. We runnin around in thousand-dollar clown suits,
Better get some boots when Lucifer turn your city to Beirut.
Ras Kass
#25. I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.
Jason Wiles
#26. I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.
Gad Elmaleh
#27. I am so freaked our right now, you could pull a clown out of my ass and I wouldn't be at all surprised
John Green
#28. Donald Trump, an oft-bankrupt make-believe mogul clown with a television show where he pretends to fire America's saddest former celebrities, is one of the Republican Party's most prominent national figures because he is on TV and people have heard of him.
Alex Pareene
#29. As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
Nadine Velazquez
#30. To my family and friends, I'm very definitely a clown. But do you know what? Doing a drama would almost seem easy because I wouldn't need to find that gag in a line.
Ashley Jensen
#31. Most men complimented my sexual vigor, thinking I owed it to them. All of them credited themselves afterwards, but the dour clown just lay there. For a moment, I thought I loved him.
Stuart Dybek
#32. A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
Malcolm X
#33. I'm training to become a giggle doctor. It's a kind of hospital clown who changes the atmosphere on the ward and helps recovery. It's about making patients laugh but also much more.
Nina Conti
#34. I was a class clown. My father was a class clown. My son has been a class clown, and it sort of ran in the family.
Robert Klein
#35. I was the class podiatrist. I never made it to class clown. I wasn't funny enough. I would examine feet and prescribe and ointment. It was a sad childhood.
Gilbert Gottfried
#36. I look like a hobo?" "Worse," he said. "Like a sad hobo clown." "And you like it?" "I love it." As soon as he said it, she broke into a smile. And when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside of him. Something always did.
Rainbow Rowell
#37. Italy being a traitor?" His voice grated. "The Duce - he was a clown; we all know that.
Philip K. Dick
#38. I know there are kids out there, I want to make sure they all know that driving without braking is not something I recommend, unless you have professional clown training or a comedy background, as I do. It is not something I plan to make a habit.
Jerry Seinfeld
#39. We have Trumpist (ph) tendencies in Europe. Look up Marine Le Pen in France. Look at the Five Star Movement headed by a clown by profession, Beppe Grillo, in Italy.
Lionel Barber
#40. My friends and I were the class clowns in high school, so one day we were showing off at our seats, and I fell off my chair! I had to get stitches, and I had a bloody lip. I was trying so hard to be a cool class clown!
Prince Royce
#41. Well, that's the thing about dressing up in an outfit, isn't it?" His smile was gone. Now he looked pale and grim. Like everyone else in Derry, in other words. "When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside." 4
Stephen King
#42. I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.
Joaquin Andujar
#44. The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
Victor Garber
#45. I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
Nathan Fillion
#46. I always tell people that if you get upset over what someone says, imagine him or her with a clown's nose on and you won't get so angry.
Bernie Glassman
#47. I was always the clown in school. I had a personal put down sense of humor. I wasn't vindictive. I didn't make fun of people.
Jim Dale
#48. The clown knows that life is cruel. The ancient jester's motley coloured costume turned his usually melancholy expression in to a joke. The clown is used to loss. Loss is his prologue.
John Berger
#49. It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future.
Daniel Kehlmann
#50. My paranoia wasn't always right, but just to be on the safe side, I never went to sleep with a clown in the room.
Mark Henwick
#51. I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.
Roberto Benigni
#52. The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.
T. S. Eliot
#53. I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.
Logan Henderson
#54. Socially, it is funny. People are annoyed because, really who is a clown?.
Eric Davis
#55. I hate clowns and I would never do anything getting near a clown, I can't go to the circus.
Ty Simpkins
#56. The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?
Angela Carter
#57. The face of the clown in the stormdrain was white, there were funny tufts of red hair on either side of his bald head, and there was a big clown-smile painted over his mouth. If George had been inhabiting a later year, he would have surely thought of Ronald McDonald before Bozo or Clarabell.
Stephen King
#58. The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#59. I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what? Never heard of him.
Lloyd Kaufman
#60. I am a clown, just without the painted smile.
Chevy Chase
#61. The clown's eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship.
Isaac Asimov
#63. You tear me down just to build me up again. All I can think is: you are a psycho-clown.
Coco J. Ginger
#64. I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty. I've done it all. I've worked as a clown, literally, at children's parties.
Jussie Smollett
#66. I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.
Bobby Cannavale
#67. How the hell are you idiots allowed to run a country? I should have voted for a clown college. They'd at least have a reason for being this stupid.
Jonathan Maberry
#68. In school I was always being cast as the clown. And then I did 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose,' and once people hear you scream, they can't un-hear it. But I don't mean to say that I've been typecast, either.
Jennifer Carpenter
#69. A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.
Emmett Kelly
#70. I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair ... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.
Diora Baird
#71. The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.
Chris Matthews
#72. I get all dressed up in fuchsia, looking like a clown, and show pretty pictures to people.
Alexandra Stoddard
#73. Be like Allan Pearl. Sit next to the class clown and study him. Then grow up, take everything you learned, and get paid to be a real-life clown, unlike whatever unexciting thing the actual high school class clown is doing now.
Mindy Kaling
#74. Much like Down Syndrome, red hair is a genetic mutation, and it occurs when a human has unprotected sex with a clown.
Daniel Tosh
#76. No one knows Anne's better side, and that's why most people can't stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone's had enough of me to last a month.
Anne Frank
#77. By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made.
Kate Middleton
#78. In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.
David Strathairn
#80. I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with me or at me.
Richard Simmons
#81. It's kind of fun to be a clown. I've always played the clown. The clowns come on, get the biggest, juiciest laughs, and then leave.
Roger Bart
#82. A lot of times, as a clown, you find acting for a reason. It's a way to exercise yourself. If you're funny, you test yourself.
Matthew Lillard
#83. To varying degrees, we all feel awkward. Whether we hide it with arrogance, shyness, modesty; whether we play the clown or the trendsetter, everyone struggles.
Miranda Hart
#85. And George saw the clown's face change. What he saw then was terrible enough to make his worst imaginings of the thing in the cellar look like sweet dreams; what he saw destroyed his sanity in one clawing stroke. "They
Stephen King
#86. I was just school class clown and that was it. Someday I'll get a job as a cab driver or whatever.
John Leguizamo
#87. Satan, you clown, you want to dissolve me with your charms. Well, I want it. I want it! Stab me with a pitchfork, sprinkle me with fire!
Arthur Rimbaud
#88. In families children tend to take on stock roles, as if there were hats hung up in some secret place, visible only to the children. Each succeeding child selects a hat and takes on that role: the good child, the black sheep, the clown, and so forth.
Ellen Galinsky
#89. A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.
Wavy Gravy
#90. What's the use of a clown who doesn't subvert?
Kirsty Logan
#91. At the end of the day this is nothing more than a blog. It's nice to hit them high notes - but REALLY - how significant do you think something that sort of sounds like the sound of a flatulent frog being run over by a clown car really needs to be?
Steve Vernon
#92. 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
#93. I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.
David Bowie
#94. I used to do stuff at college. I could do voices. I could make some people laugh. I wasn't the class clown, but I knew I had this skill.
Steve Coogan
#95. I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
Zach Braff
#96. Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#97. I really wanted people to pay attention to me and like me. And the class clown thing, you know? There's a weird desperation to the class clown when you really investigate it. Why are they trying to be the clown so much? They're filling some kind of hole.
Jack Black
#98. If he does it again, you have my permission to break his legs and arms and make him believe he's a rodeo clown from Walla Walla," I promised. "We can make him call himself Slappy the Wonder Clown.
Molly Harper
#99. I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
Rachel Dratch
