Quotes About Clowns

#1. What's this?" he inquired, none too pleasantly. "A circus?"
"No, Julius. It's the end of the circus."
"I see. And these are the clowns?"
Foaly's head poked through the doorway.
"Pardon me for interrupting your extended circus metaphor, but what the hell is that?

Eoin Colfer

#2. It's tempting to think of US politics as sport or entertainment until you realize these clowns are actually making important policy decisions.

Michael Sadoff

#3. Bad friends try to change you, good friends accept your differences, while true friends embrace and celebrate them. Watching this circle of clowns, I know I've made the truest of friends. I'm glad I didn't settle for anything else.

A.J. Compton

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

J. Cole

#5. Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right to say, 'This word shall bear this meaning,' and see if they can get it across. It is a sporting game, which all can play, only all cannot win.

Rose Macaulay

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

Harry Shearer

#7. And watch your tongue. I happen to be partial to humans - most, anyway. Clowns, not so much. Those evil bastards never stop smiling."
Niccolo didn't know what these "clowns" were, but he made a mental not to stay away if he ever encountered one. Sounded unpleasant.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#8. If you surround yourself with clowns, don't be surprised when your life resembles a circus.

Steve Maraboli

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

Oscar Robertson

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

Scott Simon

#11. When all the people covered in tattoos turn about 70 years old, they're going to look like a strange race of melting clowns.

Dana Gould

#12. All along the avenue, cotton candy stands, fun houses, and games of chance were tightly shuttered, like clowns without makeup.

William Hjortsberg

#13. I don't give a crap about clowns.

Blake Shelton

#14. I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

Roland Joffe

#15. Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns.

Jimmy Buffett

#16. Freak is easily spooked. Flesh-eating monsters tend to scare him away. So do fireworks, clowns, and the smell of Sadie's weird British Ribena drink. (Can't blame him on that last one. Sadie grew up in London and developed some pretty strange tastes.

Rick Riordan

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

Haley Bennett

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

Jimmy Fallon

#19. 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

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

Emma Thompson

#21. We strive for heights bit our natures betray us, Chamcha thought; clowns in search of crowns. The bitterness overcame him

Salman Rushdie

#22. Clowns, hoboes, gypsies, and furry animals of all kinds scattered madly and dived for cover. No doubt they thought I'd finally lost it and was planning to lob more grenades.

Donna Andrews

#23. 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

#24. No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions, most of these clowns don't read, can't write, and clearly can't add.

Carl Hiaasen

#25. When fighting clowns, always go for the juggler.

Darynda Jones

#26. Clowns have no respect for pie.

Demetri Martin

#27. Ah Ratty, what good times we'll have," said Mad Jack. "Just you and me, Ratty. We'll go cuttin' them reeds together, and if you're good we'll go to the circus when it comes to town and see the clowns. I love them clowns, Ratty. We'll have a good life together. Yes we will. Oh yes.

Angie Sage

#28. 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

#29. I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.

Patch Adams

#30. 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

#31. When I am wrong, he is delighted to forgive. When I am angry, he clowns to make me smile. When I am happy, he is joy unbounded. When I am a fool, he ignores it. When I succeed, he brags. Without him, I am only another man. With him, I am all-powerful. He is loyalty itself.

Gene Hill

#32. Look at these clowns ...
-Hand picked monkeys.
What's wrong with this scene?
-Everything.

Jose N. Harris

#33. Clowns make me ... Think.

James Marsters

#34. That's not a real answer.'
Says who?'
Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence.'
Clowns.

Sarah Dessen

#35. 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

#36. Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

John Steinbeck

#37. I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns.

Mike Wilson

#38. You turn into this desperate dude looking for a shred of attention when you just had so much. It's like, "I'm just lonely and all I really want is a hug, but I gotta capture that in something real gross." You start to understand why circus clowns are alcoholics.

Babatunde Adebimpe

#39. Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

Naguib Mahfouz

#40. When I first started dating my husband, I had this weird fascination with the circus and clowns and old carnival things and sideshow freaks and all that. About a month after we started dating, he bought me this amazing black-and-white photo book on the circus in the 1930s, and I started sobbing.

Christina Hendricks

#41. ...There was a menagerie in which hideous clowns, dressed in rags and come from who knows where, were in 1823 exhibiting to the peasants of Montfermeil one of those hideous Brazilian vultures.

Victor Hugo

#42. One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide variety of audiences. He could do the bawdy plays and the humor and the clowns-as you know, because you're a wonderful Stephano-that speaks to the populace, the masses, the groundlings, whatever.

Julie Taymor

#43. I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

Chris Parnell

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

Rob Zombie

#45. Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings / Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings / When ordinary people who are like you and me / Are the builders of their destiny.

Noel Gallagher

#46. 'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

Frank Miller

#47. He referred to the human brain as a clown car parked between our ears. Open the doors and the clowns pile out.

Karen Joy Fowler

#48. It was not all that different from the circus, and it came to town in much the same way. Only instead of elephants and giraffes, there were cameras and microphones. Instead of clowns and cages and tightropes, there were production assistants and trailers and yards upon yards of thick cables.

Jennifer E. Smith

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

Douglas Coupland

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

Oscar Wilde

#51. I went to NYU Tisch for undergrad, and it was amazing. My life then was extremely experimental with acting. I did crazy theater where we would be rolling around on the floor. I would be playing grandmothers, and clowns, and all this crazy stuff. Then I would be doing Shakespeare eight hours a day.

Katie Lowes

#52. Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.

James Wolcott

#53. There are a lots of clowns in our family - our house is a fun house.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#54. We do not speak of clowns in this office. You know that.

Cecilia London

#55. Strip those clowns down to nudity, shove the chrome where they doo doo be.

Big Pun

#56. Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost

Rubin Carter

#57. And I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing
is so ridiculous
that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?

Charles Bukowski

#58. I was always writing. I was writing in high school because it was a really competitive school for class clowns; I used to have to write all of my snaps and my disses the night before and then act like I was making it up the next day.

John Leguizamo

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

Barbara Park

#60. 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.

John Baldessari

#61. Because in the civilization of the spectacle, intellectuals are of interest only if they play the fashion game and become clowns.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#62. I hate clowns!" "That's not a real clown," another boy said. "That's just some guy dressed up like a clown!

Blake Crouch

#63. Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?'
No,' I said.
People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or cowboys, clowns, ballerinas. As if it's not enough just to be a dog or cat or turtle.

Jerry Spinelli

#64. 99.5 percent of the people that walk around and say they are a social media expert or guru are clowns. We are going to live through a devastating social media bubble.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#65. Indie rock is just as susceptible - if not more susceptible - to all the gross things about people becoming total ass clowns in music, and only worrying about money and image. I'm not interested in being a part of that.

Justin Vernon

#66. Value those whose capabilities are insurmountable you yourself possess the same strength....there's NO value in clowns! Believe and overcome!

Monica Chrisandtras Hines

#67. Don't be scared, buddy. Clowns are scary...Rhys, not so much.

Sibylla Matilde

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

Mallory Ortberg

#69. Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art.

Carole King

#70. I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music ... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response.

Patch Adams

#71. Kittens and clowns don't make sense to me anymore.

Katie McGarry

#72. I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#73. Saying I don't take my meds because they make me feel funny. Is like cannibals saying they don't eat clowns because the taste funny

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#74. What do we have here? Is my super-hot assassin boyfriend freaked out by clowns?

Jus Accardo

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

Edward R. Murrow

#76. I had a reputation for scary smiles that sent children shrieking away. Evil clowns had nothing on me.

Ann Charles

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

Groucho Marx

#78. Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers ... seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns.

Paul Fussell

#79. A knee to the balls from a car full of clowns would have been less awkward than the look he was receiving from the whiskey-eyed angel.

Lisa N. Paul

#80. Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now.
It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.

Eminem

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

Steven Wright

#82. Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#83. I'm scared of clowns.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#84. People don't buy from clowns.

Claude C. Hopkins

#85. Same circus, different clowns, and without a doubt I'm one of them.

Lynda Barry

#86. My circus train pulls through the night
Full of lions and trapeze artists
I'm done with elephants and clowns
I want to run away and join the office

Mike Doughty

#87. 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

#88. I hate clowns and I would never do anything getting near a clown, I can't go to the circus.

Ty Simpkins

#89. [Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we call the people."

Jeffrey Rosen

#90. There are only two types of people in this world; people who hate clowns, and clowns.

D.J. MacHale

#91. When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don't live.

Kevin Costner

#92. Empty the theaters save for clowns and furnish the rooms with glass walls and pretty colors running up and down the walls like confetti or blood or sherry or sauterne.

Ray Bradbury

#93. As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You know, it's clowns and kid's toys and bright colors and things like that.

Anthony Bourdain

#94. None of this seems to affect the leadership, that people don't go out to vote, that they don't feel the need to go vote, that they already feel disenfranchised. It's not just Obama's fault or Clinton's or whomever's, it's all of them, the whole collection of clowns I've had to sit through.

Lewis Black

#95. Clowns are vicious
they're all nefarious grins
and if you hung out with a bunch of clowns in a bar, pretty soon it would turn into a horror movie. Nefarious means evil. It's nothing to do with Rastas.

Jenni Fagan

#96. A dicking? Is that what you want, Camille? Because if it is let me assure you that a dicking I can give but neither of those two ass-clowns will ever touch you again once I do. So unless you can make that choice; don't tease me, Precious.

Sai Marie Johnson

#97. The wisest people are the clowns, like Harpo Marx, who would not speak. If I could have anything I want I would like God to listen to what Harpo was not saying, and understand why Harpo would not talk.

Philip K. Dick

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

Heinrich Heine

#99. Everyone else sees a legion of undead clowns worshipping a giant chicken, right?" Moon asks. "Yes." "Yeah." Hara nods. Moon is visibly relieved. "Okay, good.

Matt Wallace

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

Rick Riordan