Clown Quotes - Page 11

• Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown.

  John Keats

  Night, Voice, Bird

  "Ode to a Nightingale" l. 61 (1820)

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• Everyone goes to the 'Grands-Boulevards' (in Paris, ed.) and let himself loose... ...Do not picture these in costume, they are not for the most part... ...perhaps a clown with a big nose, or two girls with bare necks and short skirts... ...the parade of the queens of the halls (markets) is also one of the events... ...Some are pretty but look awkward in their silk dresses and crowns, particularly as the broad sun displays their defects - perhaps a neck too thin or a painted face which shows ghastley white in the sunlight.

  Edward Hopper

  Girl, Queens, Two

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• The Joker is a psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy. Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.

  Heath Ledger

  Zero, Thinking, Night

  "In Stetson or Wig, He’s Hard to Pin Down". Interview with Sarah Lyall, www.nytimes.com. November 4, 2007.

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• The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin' pocket books from old ladies I told him, "Give up the dough, before you get smoked! Oh you broke? ( *shots* ) Now you're dead broke" My name is L and I'm from a part of town where clowns, Get beat down and all you hear is gunshot sounds 'Cause at nighttime niggas try to tax, they're sneakier than alley cats, that's why I carry gats

  Big L

  Giving Up, Crazy, Book

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• Time for a new business model for the 21st century. For starters, retire that outdated and creepy clown. You can be a true leader by stop exploiting children. I guarantee the millennials market you’re after will reward you for it. I know the public health world will applaud you, starting with myself.

  Michele Simon

  Children, Leader, Creepy

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• An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Sick, Realization

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.39, BookBaby

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• Yorkie has officially retired about 5 times... The man's a clown... People are going on about the game and agents and directors of football and managers losing their jobs, but we should be worried about people like him... Clowns. That's the last time I'm going to say clown... If he's the vice-president of FIFA, God help us all.

  Roy Keane

  Soccer, Football, Jobs

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• I'm very clumsy, so there's been a lot of times I've tripped in front of girls I'm in love with, or spilled food all over myself. My friends and I were the class clowns in high school, so one day we were showing off at our seats and I fell off my chair! I had to get stitches, and I had a bloody lip. I was trying so hard to be a cool class clown!

  Prince Royce

  Girl, School, Class

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.

  John Baldessari

  Ideas, Vaudeville, Flaws

  Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 09, 2013.

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• I just always had a penchant for performing for people.I'm a jackass clown.

  Nick Offerman

  People, Performing, Jackasses

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Artist, Civilization, Ends

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1980). “The End of Christendom”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.

  Zach Braff

  Sports, School, Kids

  "Marathon Man: Zach Braff". Interview with Jennifer Campbell, www.askmen.com.

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• I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what? Never heard of him.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Directors, Goofy, Film

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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• I always had a hard time with fiction. It does feel like driving a car in a clown suit. You're going somewhere, but you're in costume, and you're not really fooling anybody. You're the guy in costume, and everybody's supposed to forget that and go along with you. Obviously, it can work, it works all the time - well, it doesn't always work. Still, no matter what, I'm always looking at the form and addressing it, not ignoring it.

  Dave Eggers

  Hard Times, Suits You, Car

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 23, 2005.

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• Arrogance is a weed which grows upon a dunghill; it is from the rankness of the soil that she has her height and spreadings: witness, clowns, fools, and fellows, who from nothing, are lifted up some few steps on fortune's ladder: where, seeing the glorious representment of honour above them, they are so eager to embrace it, that they strive to leap thither at once, and by over-reaching themselves in the way, they fail of the end, and fall.

  Owen Feltham

  Weed, Growing Up, Fall

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• One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide variety of audiences. He could do the bawdy plays and the humor and the clowns-as you know, because you're a wonderful Stephano-that speaks to the populace, the masses, the groundlings, whatever.

  Julie Taymor

  Artist, Play, Able

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to play the stiff, as much as I can, and play it dry, which is sometimes hard for me. My problem with comedy is to want to clown it up, but she's the funny one. Those are her jokes, not mine. For me, it's a lot of not doing anything. I just don't want to muck it up.

  John Cho

  Play, Trying, Dry

  Source: collider.com

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• I always was a funny guy, the class clown. I had a very funny dad and an extremely funny grandmother.

  Charlie Day

  Dad, Grandmother, Class

  "Monster Madness for Charlie Day". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. July 08, 2013.

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• For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Laughter, Differences, Public Opinion

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• For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown.

  Denis Lavant

  Long, Circus, Long Time

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• The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.

  Elinor Smith

  Mother, Children, Needs

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• Clowns are always creepy!

  Kate Bush

  Creepy

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2011.

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• There are the class clowns that are disruptive and the kids laugh and you earn the teacher's disdain, I was the kind of class clown that also cracked the teacher up. I was funny in a way that was not dissing the teacher; I was funny just to be funny.

  Jason Mantzoukas

  Teacher, Kids, Class

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I listen back, and I hear what's there, and I know in my heart, in my gut, that we [The Replacements] were the real deal. No one can take that away. You can call us buffoons, or clowns or whatever. But when we wanted to, we were as good as anybody.

  Paul Westerberg

  Real, Heart, Replacements

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.

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• The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white As powder on a mummy's face, Or fawned with simian grace Round booths with many a hard bright toy And wooden brittle joy: The cap and bells of Time the Clown That, jangling, whistled down Young cherubs hidden in the guise Of every bird that flies; And star-bright masks for youth to wear, Lest any dream that fare Bright pilgrim past our ken, should see Hints of Reality.

  Edith Sitwell

  Dream, Stars, Past

  Edith Sitwell (Dame) (1949). “The canticle of the rose: poems: 1917-1949”

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