Clown Quotes - Page 18

• Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right to say, 'This word shall bear this meaning,' and see if they can get it across. It is a sporting game, which all can play, only all cannot win.

  Rose Macaulay

  Moving, Book, Winning

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• Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully: a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman.
  [Fr., Ne forcons point notre talent;
  Nous ne ferions rien avec grace:
  Jamais un lourdaud, quoi qu'il fasse,
  Ne saurit passer pour galant.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Grace, Gentleman, May

  "Fables", IV. 5, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 777, 1922.

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• I hate clowns and I would never do anything getting near a clown, I can't go to the circus.

  Ty Simpkins

  Hate, Circus, I Can

  Source: collider.com

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• I enrolled at a local college, but this time paid attention to myself - took only courses that really interested me, even if they weren't in sequence; kept out of classes with people I knew from high school, because I tended to act like the class clown around them; selected teachers by their teaching style - until I could build up my study habits. I ended up graduating with a 3.97 GPA and got into Harvard for my doctorate.

  L. Todd Rose

  Teacher, Teaching, School

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I've always been attracted to sad. If you look at Woody Allen movies, he's often playing a sad clown, and it's always been interesting. And angry clown is even more interesting.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Interesting, Looks, Woody

  "Zach Galifianakis: ‘I have no idea’ if FX comedy ‘Baskets’ will work". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 19, 2016.

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• Of all the dear sights in the world, nothing is so beautiful as children when they are giving something. Any small thing they give. Children give the world to you. They open the world to you as if it were a book you'd never been able to read. But when a gift must be found, it is always some absurd little thing, passed on crooked. . . an angel looking like a clown. Children have so little that they can give, because they never know they have given you everything.

  Margaret Lee Runbeck

  Beautiful, Children, Book

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• I was the class clown, but I was a reluctant class clown because I was always and still am somewhat embarrassed by performing. I have terrible stage fright, and I don't like being in front of people.

  Chris Elliott

  Class, People, Stage

  "Chris Elliott's unusual career". The Washington Times Interview, www.washingtontimes.com. February 15, 2000.

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• I was two votes away from class clown in high school.

  Ed Gordon

  School, Class, Two

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along.

  Emeli Sande

  Artist, Thinking, Labels

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• I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.

  Bernie Mac

  Names, People, Laughing

  Interview, www.ign.com. March 27, 2003.

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• I was doing a show at the National Youth Theatre, playing an old man. Before that I had played fat clowns and I thought, 'If I want to have the career I would like, I am going to have to lose weight.' I was just starting drama school, and found I was moving around a lot. I also started to eat sensibly. The weight just dropped off.

  Harry Melling

  Drama, Moving, School

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• I think a lot of people assume from my music and stuff I'm constantly talking about deep and meaningful things, but then with my friends I'm just a class clown.

  Ella Henderson

  Meaningful, Thinking, Talking

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• My mom was my English teacher in high school. So to be able to bend the rules and be the class clown and get to take on my religion, my mom, and my town all at the same time was glorious. I think the desire to be funny was a mixture of wanting to be liked but also wanting to throw your elbows a bit. If you're cracking a joke in school, it's sort of anti-authority, but it's in the nicest, "Please like me!" way.

  Paul Rust

  Mom, Teacher, School

  "Meet the Star of 'Love,' Judd Apatow’s New Netflix Series". Interview with Grace Wilson, www.motherjones.com. February 28, 2016.

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