Circus Quotes

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.

Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will.

I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.

Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.

The sun stands for energy and youth, which is what I thought the circus should be about.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

KISS Psycho Circus is my current favorite. I'm not ashamed to say that I prefer the mindless fun of blasting hordes of creatures to exploration or adventure games.

Damn everything but the circus.

So we see Edward as a young man on the road and he meets a giant and he brings the giant to a circus where he meets a Miss Calloway. He sees the woman of his dreams and I am the only one who knows who she is.

When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond.

This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

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.

The most hazardous part of our expedition to Africa was crossing Piccadilly Circus.

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

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.

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.

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.