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Quotes About Clown

Actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else.
~ Jack Kerouac
In school I was always being cast as the clown. And then I did 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose,' and once people hear you scream, they can't un-hear it. But I don't mean to say that I've been typecast, either.
~ Jennifer Carpenter
when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
The medical clown connects with patients in a way that is markedly different from the rest of their experience in the hospital.
~ Jeff Raz
but gets to be in the Pantheon anyway and sit on Olympus with the Gods, as if you went to the Supreme Court and found Bozo the Clown planted among the justices.
~ Neal Stephenson
My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.
~ Sally Kellerman
The poet in Le Cagot had confected for himself the role of the miles gloriosus, the Falstaffian clown—but with a unique difference: his braggadocio was founded on a record of reckless, laughing courage in numberless guerrilla actions against the fascist who oppressed his people in Spain.
~ Trevanian
Let us not overstrain our abilities, or we shall do nothing with grace. A clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman.
~ La Fontaine
You can count on one hand the white rappers that have made it. So I just wanted to show the point of view of an actor in Hollywood, because what could be more soft than that. Rapping about auditions and acting and stuff. I thought it was just uncharted territory to clown on, so that pushed through with Dirt Nasty.
~ Simon Rex
I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
Maybe I am a little bit of a clown, but I am also a serious sportsman.
~ Eddie the Eagle
We are blessed to not have violence at our shows. People come to our shows and act a clown. When you do music, you have no control who comes to your shows. I'm sure they have fights at Miley Cyrus shows.
~ Tech N9ne
Many Halloweens ago, he was just a tiny red puppy. I wanted to take Clifford out trick-or-treating. But the mask and hat didn't fit. He was not a happy clown.
~ Norman Bridwell
And Quaid knew, meeting the clown's vacant stare through an air turned bloody, that there was worse in the world than dread. Worse than death itself. There was pain without hope of healing. There was life that refused to end, long after the mind had begged the body to cease. And worst, there were dreams come true.
~ Clive Barker
Se tivesses acreditado na minha brincadeira de dizer verdades, teria ouvido verdades que teimo em dizer brincando. Muitas vezes falei como o palhaço, mas nunca desacreditei da seriedade da platéia que sorria.
~ Charles Chaplin
I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they'd still say I'm a dark personality.
~ Tim Burton
I was a class clown; the nuns didn't like that.
~ Bobby Cannavale
El pachuco es un clown impasible y siniestro, que no intenta hacer reír y que procura aterrorizar.
~ Octavio Paz
Usually he looked as if he saw things, was full of life, and warm; then his smile, like his mother's, came suddenly and was very lovable; and then, when there was any clog in his soul's quick running, his face went stupid and ugly. He was the sort of boy that becomes a clown and a lout as soon as he is not understood, or feels himself held cheap; and, again, is adorable at the first touch of warmth.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Life laughs at me now, Sad, forsaken clown. Dreams crumble and fall. They die silently. Where is there to turn to? Where can I find mercy? Love is what I needed, All I wanted from this life. ?Carmen, singing Destiny Theme
~ Walter Dean Myers
Courtesy of tongue, said Rowena, when it is used to veil churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a base clown.[]
~ Walter Scott
When does a joke become a dad joke? When it becomes apparent. I, for one, like Roman numerals. Yesterday, a clown held a door open for me. I thought it was a nice jester. Why is it a bad idea to iron your four-leaf clover? Because you shouldn't press your luck.
~ Charles Timmerman
A cupcake is just a muffin with clown puke topping. And once you've got through the clown puke there's nothing but a fistful of quotidian sponge nestling in a depressing, soggy 'cup' that feels like a pair of paper knickers a fat man has been sitting in throughout a long, hot coach journey between two disappointing market towns.
~ Charlie Brooker
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician
~ Charlie Chaplin