Circus Quotes - page 5

What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken. (Katherine Applegate)
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. View quote
Christina Hendricks
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration. View quote
Bil Keane
Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in my estimation the use of them is a compliment to the popularity of the feature, which just by mentioning it's name sets up the image of a warm, loving family-type feature. View quote
Bil Keane
When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love. View quote
Baz Luhrmann
I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition. View quote
Emmanuelle Beart
Being an actress was kind of like when you're a kid, and you want to run away and join the circus, it's something you really want to do, but then you grew up and got a proper job. It was a dream, but I didn't think it would ever be reality, and yet here I am! View quote
Katie McGrath
I had seen ... the mistreatment and abuse of these elephants ... and I was brought to tears. When you look at something like the circus and everyone's laughing and there's color and there's music and everything seems so great, but when you go right behind that door and they're in these crates all day long and then they're getting shocked and beat just so they can get up and dance around on a ball - it was just so sickening. ... Stop going to the circus, don't buy real fur, don't buy a dog, go rescue a dog. You can't keep supporting people who are doing this to helpless animals, at all. View quote
Olivia Munn
If one behaved as a good citizen or a charitable person simply because one was dreadfully scared of the state placing one in jail, one would not be a good citizen or person but barely more than a circus animal. View quote
Tibor R. Machan
Oh, I used to lie all the time as a kid." I didn't think of it as lying, though. I thought of it as playing make-believe. I told Kitty she was adopted and her real family was in a traveling circus. It's why she took up gymnastics. View quote
Jenny Han
Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler. (Ben Chaplin)
Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant. View quote
Ally Carter
I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes. View quote
Ashley Madekwe
I've worked behind counters serving food, and I've lived on the circus train, and I've led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I've been a key liner for a newspaper, I've done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things. View quote
Bonnie Jo Campbell
We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home. View quote
Bronagh Gallagher
Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way. View quote
Celia Imrie
There are always those Gossip Girl walk-and-talk scenes where you're walking and just talking about life and death. You're having a serious conversation, looking someone in the eye, but everywhere around you, it's literally a circus. View quote
Chace Crawford
Well, I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought, you know, this group is really reinventing the circus, as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals. View quote
Criss Angel
For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown. View quote
Denis Lavant
I've been very fortunate. I've been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce - I've been in a musical and in music halls, in pantomime. I was once ringmaster in a circus. View quote
Donald Sinden
I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else. (Dontrelle Willis)
I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that. View quote
Danny Huston
I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17. View quote
Francesca Annis
You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don't need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith. View quote
Greg Behrendt
We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way. View quote
Guy Laliberte