Clown Quotes

When I'm with my friends I'm funny, but I don't feel like I'm a funny clown.

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.

I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.

'Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

I'm the youngest of four, and I'm always the clown - making the jokes, wanting attention.

Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.

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

I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.

I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.

My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family.

I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work. Now I can't get a dramatic role to save my life!

I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.

A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.

As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.

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.

The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.

I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves.

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person.

A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.

Even at Westchester High in West LA, I was class clown.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.

The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.

The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.

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

I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.

It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'

It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.