Clown Quotes

I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. (Charlie Chaplin)

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

Margaret Atwood

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.

Janeane Garofalo

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

I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they'd still say I'm a dark personality.

Tim Burton

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

Hugh Jackman

I'm funny. I'm a comedian. I'm not a clown.

Bernie Mac

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

Diane Cilento

My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.

Sally Kellerman

We need a clown for this circus.

Roger Federer

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)

People like eccentrics and they will therefore leave me alone, saying that I am a "mad clown."

Vaslav Nijinsky

Everyone goes to the 'Grands-Boulevards' and let himself loose.. .Do not picture these in costume, they are not for the most part.. ..perhaps a clown with a big nose, or two girls with bare necks and short skirts.. ..the parade of the queens of the halls [Paris' markets] is also one of the events.. ..Some are pretty but look awkward in their silk dresses and crowns, particularly as the broad sun displays their defects – perhaps a neck too thin or a painted face which shows ghastly white in the sunlight.

Edward Hopper

Be a clown, be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool, play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh .

Cole Porter

The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

Angela Carter

The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?

Angela Carter

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

Marc Maron

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

[The Joker is a] psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy. ... Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.

Heath Ledger

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan

I am a clown... and I collect moments. (Heinrich Böll)

Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker.

Pauline Kael

Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.

Dennis Miller

Travis: I didn't know they made permanent makeup. I looked like a clown for a month. Connor: Yeah. They put a curse on me so that no matter what I wore, my clothes were two sizes too small and I felt like a geek. Travis: You are a geek.

Rick Riordan

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