Clown Quotes

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

I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.

I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

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.

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.

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.

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.

'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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I suppose that I'm fairly comfortable with the clown hat on.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.