Clown Quotes - page 4

Of obvious appeal to the humourless is the writer who comes on stage in a clown outfit or King Kong suit, with party hat and harem slippers, with banana skins and custard pies... It remains a sound rule that funny journalism can only flourish as the offshoot or sideline of something larger. No funny journalist who is that and nothing more will ever write anything lastingly funny. (Martin Amis)
Now if there's a smile on my face, It's only there tryin' to fool the public, But when it comes down to foolin' you; Now honey, that's quite a different subject. But don't let my glad expression Give you the wrong impression. Really I'm sad. I'm sadder than sad. You're gone and I'm hurtin' so bad. Like a clown I pretend to be glad. View quote
Smokey Robinson
I'm a rodeo clown. It takes great skill. View quote
Glenn Beck
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. View quote
Karl Rove
I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body. View quote
James Van Der Beek
I'm a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be both smiling. View quote
Andy Samberg
He dressed up like a clown for them With his face paint white and red. And on his best behavior In a dark room on the bed, He kissed them all. View quote
Sufjan Stevens
Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky. View quote
Douglas Coupland
In Italy there is a fringe of imbeciles who believe they can resurrect communism. To bury the corpse of Marxism is not easy, because for many people that would mean denying the whole of existence. Of course Bertinotti is not one of those: he knows nothing about Marxism, he doesn't care, he is a little clown, an Italian-style populist who stirs masses of poor devils in the streets and still speaks of the working masses that only he sees. View quote
Indro Montanelli
It's the bane of existence for anyone in comedy. 'The photograph must be funny!' So the people coordinating the shoot throw rubber chickens at you, 20 at a time. Or put a feathered hat on you. Or give you a clown nose. Of course, all of this makes you depressed, so you wind up looking more like you're promoting A Long Day's Journey Into Night. View quote
Martin Short
Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown. (R. L. Stine)
The original Golden Dawn was not always as serious as it should have been. Mathers was a clown, and Yeats was just a romantic trying to deceive himself. Most of them were interested in personal power, and it ended up by destroying them. The aim of our group is the scientific exploration of the hidden powers of the human mind. View quote
Colin Wilson
What is it that put America in the forefront of the nuclear nations? And what is it that will make it possible to spend twenty billion dollars of your money to put some clown on the moon? Well, it was good old American know how, that's what, as provided by good old Americans like Dr. Wernher von Braun! View quote
Tom Lehrer
I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
I've been deceived by the clown inside of me. I thought that he was righteous but he's vain. View quote
Bob Dylan
Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me! View quote
Stephen King
Nobody likes a clown at midnight. View quote
Stephen King
I started after him... and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was." "Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly. "It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town. View quote
Stephen King
When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside. View quote
Stephen King
The fears of children were simpler and usually more powerful. The fears of children could often be summoned up in a single face... and if bait were needed, why, what child did not love a clown? View quote
Stephen King
I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary and experimented with voices - it was important to try to find a somewhat iconic voice and laugh. I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath - someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts ... just an absolute sociopath, a cold-blooded, mass-murdering clown .... [being given] free rein [by director Christopher Nolan was] fun, because there are no real boundaries to what The Joker would say or do. Nothing intimidates him, and everything is a big joke. (Heath Ledger)
Dare to wear the foolish clown face. View quote
Frank Sinatra
Who's gonna love you when it all falls down? Who's gonna love you when your bankroll runs out? Who's gonna care when the novelty's over? When the star of the show isn't you anymore. Nobody cares when the tears of a clown fall down (I guess your mama never told you what goes around comes back around). View quote
Mariah Carey
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man. View quote
Malcolm X
As a matter of survival I've created this anti-hero alter-ego, a guy in an ill-fitting suit-part humunculus and part clown. Yep, that's me alright ... I could never relate to heroes. I have no interest in drawing heroic characters. It's not my thing, man. I'm more inclined toward the sordid underbelly of life. I find it more interesting to draw grotesque, lurid, or absurd pictures, and I especially enjoy depicting my fevered sexual obsessions. View quote
Robert Crumb