Clown Quotes - Page 2

• A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

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• 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.

  Carl Sagan

  Funny, Brother, Laughter

  Broca's Brain ch. 5 (1979)

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• By blood a king, in heart a clown.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Kings, Heart, Blood

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• Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am.

  Emma Thompson

  Laughter, Celebration, Failing

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• I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Friends, Humor

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• I am a clown...and I collect moments.

  Heinrich Böll

  Moments

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• The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Artist, World, May

  Osbert Sitwell (1977). “Left Hand, Right Hand!: An Autobiography”

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• Clowns make me... Think.

  James Marsters

  Thinking

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• 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

  Dark, Laughing, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

  Tina Weymouth

  Order, Perception, Want

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• 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.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Europe

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• People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.

  Vaslav Nijinsky

  People, Mad, Leave Me Alone

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.

  Red Skelton

  Smile, Silly, Heart

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• No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Purpose, Nervousness

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.164, Random House

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• 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.

  Roberto Benigni

  Important, Lions, Circus

  "The Crisis of Crowding: Quant Copycats, Ugly Models, and the New Crash Normal". Book by Ludwig B. Chincarini, 2012.

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• The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

  Patch Adams

  Suffering, Physicians, Roles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.

  Douglas Coupland

  Eye, Adults, Contact

  "Douglas Coupland" by Johnny Dee, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2009.

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• The clown has great importance as part of the search for what is laughable and ridiculous in man. We should put the emphasis on the rediscovery of our own individual clown, the one that has grown-up within us and which society does not allow us to express.

  Jacques Lecoq

  Men, Doe, Ridiculous

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• 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.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Girlfriend, Silly, Just Being

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• Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Men, Years

  Albert Camus (1978). “Notebooks, 1935-1942”, Harcourt

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• Never underestimate a clown with a book.

  Rawi Hage

  Book, Underestimate, Never Underestimate

  Rawi Hage (2013). “Carnival: A Novel”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Two cannibals eating a clown. One asks the other, 'Does this taste funny to you?'

  Tommy Cooper

  Two, Doe, Taste

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• A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to the general applause of wits who believe it's a joke.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Believe, Thinking, Fire

  "Either/Or" by Soren Kierkegaard as quotes in "The Point of View" by Robert L. Perkins, (p. 241), 2010.

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• I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, Laughing, Kind

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.176, Random House

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• At this point, if I were to psychoanalyze myself, I'd have to say I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular person.

  Tim Duncan

  Persons, Ifs

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