Quotes About Clowns

I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns.

Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.

I don't have a negative perception of clowns.

I'm really scared of clowns, and for a while, I was scared to perform and sing in front of a crowd. Also, I'm not a big scary movie guy. They stay with me for a while.

I think a lot of comedians make the best dramatic actresses because they have a facility. They're very vulnerable. They're very open, like clowns.

99.5 percent of the people that walk around and say they are a social media expert or guru are clowns. We are going to live through a devastating social media bubble.

Empty the theaters save for clowns and furnish the rooms with glass walls and pretty colors running up and down the walls like confetti or blood or sherry or sauterne.

There are clowns who make you laugh, there are clowns who laugh with you and there are clowns who laugh at you."

When I first started dating my husband, I had this weird fascination with the circus and clowns and old carnival things and sideshow freaks and all that. About a month after we started dating, he bought me this amazing black-and-white photo book on the circus in the 1930s, and I started sobbing.

I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.

Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?

I don't have any issues with clowns - I feel like I owe them an apology in some ways.

There are a lots of clowns in our family - our house is a fun house.

I really didn't want to expand the negative vision of clowns because clowns are not intrinsically scary.

I enjoyed clowns when I was a kid going to the circus. Mainly I mean the good clowns, when you go to a circus.

You ask people, 'What is the circus?' They'll say, 'Animals, clowns and acrobats!' That's what people want. If you say you don't have animals, they walk away.

I was not the young heroic model for 'Hamlet.' I tended to play those characters that orbited around them: the rogues and the rat bags and the idiots and the fools and the clowns that sway the plot somehow from a tangent.

Everyone hates clowns, Otis said. Even other clowns hate clowns.

No one was amused now. ('The clowns are the dangerous ones,' Perry said.)

I'm divorced and I've been to the circus and seen the clowns. This ain't my first rodeo.

Tried to escape, to block out the fact that I was being eaten alive by arachnids. For some reason the only thing I could replace it with was the image of being eaten by tiny clowns.

I smile. Not just at bad clowns, but at "library science." I like that name. It makes a library sound as vast and mysterious as the universe or the ocean, requiring specific study to be understood.

It's a traveling syphilitic sideshow: I don't like the circus. Diseased animals and hermaphrodite clowns throwing anthrax spores at the children. This is like entertainment from the ninth century. Greeks, trolls, mutants, all these inbred circus people. They come out from under bridges, releasing disease and pestilence into the air. I don't like the circus.

Boyd wasn't scared of clowns. Never had been. He thought their antics were delightfully amusing, just as they intended.