Clown Quotes - Page 7

• A candy coloured clown they call the sandman
  Tiptoes into my room every night
  Just to sprinkle stardust and whisper;
  "Go to sleep, everything is alright"

  Roy Orbison

  Halloween, Sleep, Night

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• When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.

  John Ruskin

  War, Heart, Blood

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.278, University of Virginia Press

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• There's some sad things known to man, but ain't too much sadder than, the tears of a clown when noones around.

  Smokey Robinson

  Sadness, Men, Tears

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• Okay," I said, "what's your biggest fear?" As always, he took a second to think about the answer. "Clowns," he said. "Clowns." "Yup." I just looked at him. "What?" he said, glancing over at me. "That is not a real answer," I told him. "Says who?" "Says me. I meant a real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence." He thought for a second. "Clowns.

  Sarah Dessen

  Regret, Real, Night

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• A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Character, Italian, Play

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.334, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Broken, Sorrow

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.187, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• You become funny for a reason. I became an actor because that's who I was, nothing else - it was the only thing I was good at. You become a clown and you make people laugh because a) it protects you from everything, and b) it's this validating force in your life. And when you're 12 and 13 years old, you need validation and you're lost and you're kind of floating and you suffer from a severe learning disability and you're overweight and you have glasses... you become funny for a reason.

  Matthew Lillard

  Glasses, Years, Validation

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for my set of skills was an air traffic accident investigator, of which there are fewer than fifty in the world. The number two job was a museum curator for Chinese-American studies. The number three job was a circus clown.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, School, Skills

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1437, Simon and Schuster

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• The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.

  T. S. Eliot

  Dog, Play, Usual

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.215, Faber & Faber

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• I have always found clowns really fascinating, especially on film. Even as a kid I was never scared of them.

  Rob Zombie

  Kids, Scared, Film

  Source: www.gorestruly.com

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• I'm obsessed with clowns and what they represent and the idea that clowns are supposed to make you laugh, but inevitably they're hiding something. That's how I look at my life.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Hiding Something, Ideas, Laughing

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• One day he said, "I'll tell this town How it feels to be an unfunny clown." And he told them all why he looked so sad, And he told them all why he felt so bad. He told of Pain and Rain and Cold, He told of Darkness in his soul, And after he finished his tale of woe, Did everyone cry? Oh no, no, no, They laughed until they shook the trees... And while the world laughed outside. Cloony the Clown sat down and cried.

  Shel Silverstein

  Pain, Rain, Tree

  Shel Silverstein, “Cloony The Clown”

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• When I was twelve, I was interviewed by a doctoral candidate in education and asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said that I either wanted to be a philosopher or a clown, and I understood then, I think, that much depended on whether or not I found the world worth philosophizing about, and what the price of seriousness might be.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Twelve, World

  Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory Judith Butler (2004). “Undoing Gender”, p.234, Routledge

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• The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.

  James Hillman

  Fun, Play, White

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• I'm a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be both smiling.

  Andy Samberg

  Tattoo, Two, Would Be

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• What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dull, Thieves, Pretentious

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.72, A&C Black

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• You really come to life on stage but outside - this is a bit of a sad clown cliché - there is that element of loneliness you get from travelling and being on the road. Stand-ups can bring a lot of that to a dramatic role and make it work for them.

  Doc Brown

  Loneliness, Roles, Elements

  Source: www.gigglebeats.co.uk

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• I hate clowns. I've mentioned that, right?

  D. J. MacHale

  Hate, I Hate

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• Somebody said they seen her heading out of town, now she ran away with a rodeo clown.

  Toby Keith

  Infidelity, Towns, Rodeo

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• The Thieves of Manhattan is a sly and cutting riff on the book-publishing world that is quite funny unless you happen to be an author, in which case the novel will make you consider a more sensible profession-like being a rodeo clown, for example, or a crab-fisherman in the Bering Sea.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Book, Cutting, Sea

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• I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofball. Not suspended or anything, just sit outside and look at the tree on the bench. I got benched a lot. You keep one foot on the bench and try to get as far away as possible.

  Damon Wayans, Jr.

  Class, Feet, Tree

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

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• A little madness in the Spring
  Is wholesome even for the King,
  But God be with the Clown,
  Who ponders this tremendous scene--
  This whole experiment in green,
  As if it were his own!

  Emily Dickinson

  Nature, Kings, Spring

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1613, Delphi Classics

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• Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman.

  John Dryden

  Reading, Gentleman, Half

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• The wisest people are the clowns, like Harpo Marx, who would not speak. If I could have anything I want I would like God to listen to what Harpo was not saying, and understand why Harpo would not talk.

  Philip K. Dick

  Wisdom, People, Want

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Vintage PKD”, p.126, Vintage

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• Strip those clowns down to nudity, shove the chrome where they doo doo be.

  Big Pun

  Revenge, Nudity, Retribution

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