Clown Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.

  Diora Baird

  Teacher, Party, School

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• In families children tend to take on stock roles, as if there were hats hung up in some secret place, visible only to the children. Each succeeding child selects a hat and takes on that role: the good child, the black sheep, the clown, and so forth.

  Ellen Galinsky

  Children, Sheep, Secret Places

  Ellen Galinsky (1981). “Between generations: the six stages of parenthood”, Smithmark Pub

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• There is no room in baseball for a clown.

  Chuck Dressen

  Baseball, Rooms

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• My mom always said that she didn't wear a red nose and big shoes because that's the reason people are scared of clowns. My dad is a sociology teacher, so he probably figured that out with her. Those are the things that are exaggerated, that don't give off the signals of humans. You know, if you draw a picture of a circle and ask somebody to feel empathy with the circle, they won't. But if you draw literally two, three dots inside the circle, like two eyes and a nose, you immediately feel empathy.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Mom, Teacher, Dad

  Interview with Steve Heisler, film.avclub.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I was a class clown, of the classic term for it. I would get the work done easily, and then I would try to deprive other people of their educations. I developed skills for mimicry, and I was a good showoff. I knew how to get attention, and I knew how to do it in a positive funny way.

  George Carlin

  Class, Skills, People

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• Primitive societies, or social groupings, had shamans, and some of them even more recent in time. Shamans were tricksters. There was a tradition of the trickster, and the trickster was a clown, a humorous fellow. His task was to trick the gods, to humor the gods into laughing, so that there was access to the divine - because laughter is a moment when we are completely ourselves.

  George Carlin

  Laughter, Humorous, Laughing

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• What's up?  I'm Harris.  I'm 33 years young.  I have my cousin Jason's truck for two more weeks.  I have one testicle-whack a mole accident-and I'm down to clown.

  Harris Wittels

  Cousin, Years, Two

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• 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

  Men, People, Trying

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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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• I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown?

  Joe Pesci

  Mean, Mafia, Mobster

  "Fictional character: Tommy DeVito". "Goodfellas", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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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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• 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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• READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in the 9th inning, and as beautiful as the best sunset you ever saw.

  Judith Viorst

  Beautiful, Baseball, Book

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• A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.

  Wavy Gravy

  Brother, Shoes, Giants

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• I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession but the art of poetry carries its own powers without having to break them down into critical listings. I do not mean that poetry should be raffish and irresponsible clown tossing off words into the void. But the very feeling of a good poem carries its own reason for being... Art is its own excuse, and it’s either Art or it’s something else. It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Charles Bukowski (2015). “On Writing”, p.26, Canongate Books

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• I was just school class clown and that was it. Someday I'll get a job as a cab driver or whatever.

  John Leguizamo

  Jobs, School, Class

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You love the way it makes me feel when I can't catch my breath Like walkin' on a high wire, Lord, it scares me half to death You're always high above me and I'm always fallin' down Our loves just a circus baby, and I'm just the clown

  Conway Twitty

  Baby, Wire, Scare

  Song: The Clown, Album: Southern Comfort, 1982

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• Trump has officially changed his name to Ronald because he's such a clown, and in sympathy his toupée is changing its name to Bozo.

  Michael R. Burch

  Names, Trump, Changed

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• I don't know what happiness is. I don't know what sweet caress is. Still, I'm always laughing like a clown.

  Bob Marley

  Sweet, Laughing, Serious

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• Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Ambition, Ambitious, Grocers

  "The Sun Watches the Sun" by Dejan Stojanovic, Sunce sebe gleda, Književna reč, Beograd, "Game III," (p. 98), 1999.

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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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• They're [zombies] us, you can also have the wrestler zombie, the clown zombie, the Jay Leno zombie and the nun zombie. I've never seen the clown werewolf or vampire. But because zombies are us, at the lowest possible level, they're a lot more versatile for storytelling.

  Tom Savini

  Zombie, Vampire, Levels

  Source: collider.com

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• I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.

  Wavy Gravy

  Cheer, Pain, Kids

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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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