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Quotes About Clown

A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast.
~ Groucho Marx
In school I was never the class clown, but more the class trapeze artist. I was always being suspended.
~ Unknown
Pain and grief sawed through Pino. This torment was his punishment, he decided. He bowed his head, understanding that this was between God and . . . The aria of the heartbroken clown echoed in his ears and Anna crumpled and fell again, and again, and . . . in a matter of seconds, his faith in God, in life, in love, and in a better tomorrow drained away to empty
~ Unknown
A lot of times, as a clown, you find acting for a reason. It's a way to exercise yourself. If you're funny, you test yourself.
~ Matthew Lillard
Two cannibals eating a clown. One asks the other, 'Does this taste funny to you?'
~ Tommy Cooper
If heaven was created only for the most stupid clown, then Mr Bean could have been the only righteous man on earth.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
I once made love to a female clown, and she twisted my penis into a poodle.
~ Unknown
A snake charmer and a clown A treasure that never was A gift from the deity Itzamna: from 9.10.5.10.7 to 11.17.2.13.10
~ Matt de la Pena
In the meantime, though, the race for the Republican Party presidential nomination sure seems funny. The event known around the world as hashtagGOPClownCar is improbable, colossal, spectacular and shocking; epic, monumental, heinous and disgusting. It's like watching 17 platypuses try to mount the queen of England. You can't tear your eyes away from it. It
~ Matt Taibbi
A God who is trying to convince people that He is a God is not a God! He is just a clown disguised as a God! No supreme power can be in need of convincing men!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Some day I should like to run a competition to find out the unfunniest clown in Shkespeare. There's a lot of choice from that dreadful lancelot Gobbo to the superlatively unfunny Feste. Nobody can make me believe that even the groundlings laughed at them, unless, as I suspect, the dire lines were enlivened by rude gestures,
~ Unknown
There's no point in advertising a circus when everybody hates the clown.
~ Michael McDowell
There's no point in advertising a circus when everybody hates the clown.
~ Michael McDowell
Barbara, shut up," said her son Luker. "You know very well why it's a private funeral." "Why?" "Because we are the only people in Mobile who would have come. There's no point in advertising a circus when everybody hates the clown.
~ Michael McDowell
And Murdoch, finally arriving at the party he was in more than one way sorely late to, was as subdued and thrown as everyone else, and struggling to adjust his view of a man who, for more than a generation, had been at best a clown prince among the rich and famous.
~ Michael Wolff
I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.
~ Nathan Lane
Do you want to know how to write a song? Songwriting is about counterpoint. Counterpoint is the key - putting two disparate images beside each other and seeing which way the sparks fly. Like letting a small child in the same room as, I don't know, a Mongolian psychopath or something, and just sitting back and seeing what happens. Then you send in a clown, say, on a tricycle and again you wait and you watch. And if that doesn't do it, you shoot the clown.
~ Nick Cave
I have frantically played the clown in order to distangle myself from these painful relationships, only to wear myself out as a result.
~ Osamu Dazai
I have frantically played the clown in order to disentangle myself from these painful relationships, only to wear myself out as a result.
~ Osamu Dazai
As a child I had absolutely no notion of what others, even members of my own family, might be suffering or what they were thinking. I was aware only of my own unspeakable fears and embarrassments. Before anyone realized it, I had become an accomplished clown, a child who never spoke a single truthful word.
~ Osamu Dazai
Rumbles was a long–time regular who in his working hours holds the honorable position of clown. He claims to have held several other positions, but being a gentleman, refuses to elaborate. The
~ Unknown
Then the music. It's jazz and yet not jazz. There's something euphoric, disconnected about it. Like four instruments that have run amok. But it fools you. Because there is also a strange precision to it. Like a clown act in a circus ring. What takes the greatest precision is that it's supposed to sound like total chaos.
~ Peter Høeg