Clown Quotes - Page 8

• I always tell people that if you get upset over what someone says, imagine him or her with a clown's nose on and you won't get so angry.

  Bernie Glassman

  People, Upset, Noses

  Source: onpoint.wbur.org

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• Yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists and ham-fisted clowns. If you are on a list targeted by the CIA, you really have nothing to worry about. If however, you have a name similar to somebody on a list targeted by the CIA, then you are dead.

  Alan Moore

  Running, Names, Numbers

  "The Mindscape of Alan Moore". 2003.

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• You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.

  Bob Dylan

  Tricks, Jugglers

  Song: Like A Rolling Stone

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• The whole romanticized sad clown thing, we have to get rid of that. That has to go. That's just getting sick people to voluntarily stay sicker and sadder than they have to be.

  Chris Gethard

  Sick, People

  "Manic And Depressed, 'I Didn't Like Who I Was,' Says Comic Chris Gethard". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, wprl.org. May 5, 2017.

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• I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dance, Dancing, Flawless

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Lady Oracle”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings, Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings, When ordinary people who are like you and me, Are the builders of their destiny...

  Noel Gallagher

  Kings, Destiny, People

  "Song: Go Let It Out (Standing on the Shoulder of Giants)". February 7, 2000.

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• Some ego is involved because I guess one wants to be perceived as a good clown and one puts one's name on the art; but it's so hard to do anything in life, trapped as we are in our bodies, that is purely selfless for others... somehow the self is always involved.

  Jonathan Ames

  Art, Self, Names

  "The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Ames". Interview with Joshua Furst, therumpus.net. July 29, 2009.

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• There was a clown that tried to eat me as a boy, in my nightmares. Years later I found a clown for booking online who resembled him named Patches. Needless to say, Patches is dead now.

  Thom Yorke

  Boys, Years, Nightmare

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• We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Business, Tents, Freak

  As quoted by Bill Moyers CBS TV, September 10, 1986.

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• I was the hallway clown in high school.

  J. B. Smoove

  School, High School, Hallways

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• There was something about clowns that was worse than zombies. (Or maybe something that was the same. When you see a zombie, you want to laugh at first. When you see a clown, most people get a little nervous. There's the pallor and the cakey mortician-style makeup, the shuffling and the untidy hair. But clowns were probably malicious, and they moved fast on those little bicycles and in those little crammed cars. Zombies weren't much of anything. They didn't carry musical instruments and they didn't care whether or not you laughed at them. You always knew what zombies wanted.)

  Kelly Link

  Makeup, Hair, People

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• As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.

  Gemma Ward

  Children, Character, Fool

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• Hey man! I'm a comedian but I'm not a clown.

  Godfrey

  Men, Comedian, Hey

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• I'm more of a clown, a tragic clown. Yeah. I just like humor to come out of characters.

  Amy Sedaris

  Character, Yeah, Tragic

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, tv.avclub.com. June 28, 2006.

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• When I was at home, I wasn't shy. I was the clown at home, because I was loved. It was in the outside world that I was judged and I wasn't loved. That was very clear to me, that I wasn't loved. So I became very quiet. You know, those little girls you see in those pictures that look like they want to hunch, I was trying to disappear into my shoulder blades. The quietest person in the classroom, that was me. But that wasn't me at home.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Girl, Home, Trying

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• My mother-in-law is obsessed with clowns.

  Seth

  Mother, Law, Obsessed

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• Kings kill; clowns don't; therefore the clowns of the kings are more valuable than the kings!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Valuable

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• Compared to the typical Zim/Chomsky-spouting grad school clown, a trucker with a screaming eagle hat is a paragon of political nuance.

  David Burge

  School, Eagles, Political

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• I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.

  Rose Byrne

  Roles, Serious, Bigs

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• A circus! 100 clowns of injustice have climbed out of the tiny clown car of this court room.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Car, Rooms, Tiny

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• It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a sarcastic spoof on culture, which allows us to laugh at ourselves - but in a way that is inclusive of everyone.

  RuPaul

  Sarcastic, Queens, Laughing

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• I'm not a clown but I'm not an academic either.

  Tom Verlaine

  Academic

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• The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

  Angela Carter

  Laughter, Children, Laughing

  Angela Carter (1984). “Nights at the circus”, Vintage

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• He's fat and a clown, Bill, a fat clown for all to see.

  Eamon Dunphy

  Memorable, Bills, Fats

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• The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Jobs, Sorrow

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