Quotes About Clown

...heaven wouldn't be like this earth, this tormented earth ruled by evil forces that tossed humanity to and fro like a slow clown in a two-bit rodeo.

My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent with the awful order of things. I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse. I play witch.

Who's the clown in life, the one with the two faces and characters or the persons who Laugh about them?

I wasn't the class clown. I wasn't that obvious. There would be a circle of guys, and they're watching the class clown. And I'm standing in the back, and I turn to the guy next to me and I say something funny to him, and he starts to laugh. And the guy next to him says, 'What did he say?'

I was always the class clown. I was always the funny one.

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

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

I've always had a crazy sense of humor. So the ballet probably wouldn't have been enough for me. I had to clown around a little bit more.

My school was really small, but I was called the Class Clown!

I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.

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

I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.

I did clown training for months.

I was the biggest class clown. I loved attention.

I'd never been the class clown and comedy was not a fulfilment of a dream.

I had so much joy as a boy: middle child, lots of energy, big emotional life. I was a clown and still am.

I love the opportunity to clown.

It's kind of fun to be a clown. I've always played the clown. The clowns come on, get the biggest, juiciest laughs, and then leave.

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

I was certainly not a class clown; I confused and angered a lot of people with my sense of humor.

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

When the NBA first resorted to it in 1979, I must admit I thought it was a circus rule, the equivalent of asking players to be shot out of cannons or swallow swords, something borrowed from the stepchild ABA with its red, white and blue basketballs. A 3-point line? The beautiful game of basketball didn't need a clown shot.

The good thing about being a circus clown must be that you never have to worry about how your hair looks.