Circus Quotations

I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time. We roll into someplace, cause a bunch of damage, and then roll out.

I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.

It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.

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

Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about how the animals are happy and well cared for are lies. Don't be swayed by them. The money behind these shows is huge; there is nothing good about them.

Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.

When I retired from the circus at the grand old age of 11, my parents thought it would be best to focus more on the challenges ahead, and so I started at Methodist College Belfast.

I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.

We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home.

When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.

There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.

Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.

Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.

When I first started dating my husband, I had this weird fascination with the circus and clowns and old carnival things and sideshow freaks and all that. About a month after we started dating, he bought me this amazing black-and-white photo book on the circus in the 1930s, and I started sobbing.

Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us.

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

I remember I had a boyfriend a long time ago who said, 'You need to change your name; you sound like a circus performer.'

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.

When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

So we see Edward as a young man on the road and he meets a giant and he brings the giant to a circus where he meets a Miss Calloway. He sees the woman of his dreams and I am the only one who knows who she is.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus.

I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.

When eventually I started to act a bit more, I realised that circus school had taught me something that a lot of actors my age didn't have: physicality. They didn't know how to move. Acting is not all about talking. There is something animalistic about it.

So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.

Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.

Whether the boat you are sailing is big or small, the winds are the same. A sailor goes from one point of land to another, but in the circus we sail from one dream to another. With a smaller boat, it's easier to navigate around the icebergs.

We're going to sue the superintendent, and we're going to sue the state Board of Education. ... It's like a three-ring circus over there. We will spare no expense to help these kids.

We're not good enough to have defensive lapses. Normally, when we score 59 points, that's enough. Offensively, we're doing some good things, but defensively it looks like a circus sometimes.

Love has been described as a three-ring circus: First comes the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, and after that the suffering.

Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

There are two things I would not want to engage Arnold Schwarzenegger in: arm wrestling and a TV appearance. Wherever he goes, the circus comes to town.

Last year, we felt like we heard the circus music after every score. It was an adventure out there because our extra-point game was very inconsistent. So it's a pleasure to be able to watch a kid go out and stick the ball through the uprights, like Jonathan does.

Oh, wow. All you can say is, 'Wow.' It was like a circus, but a fun circus to watch.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit.

IBM is trying to ride this horse along with all the other horses it's riding and not fall off any of them. This is a great circus act.

I love a great show. This is a great show. This is the circus coming to town and it's great to see (Glenn) do that,

Historically, the presence of African Americans in big-top performances is very rare. That's what Cedric of the UniverSoul Circus is working against -- that history,

He's going to turn the courtroom into a circus and we can't have it.

KISS Psycho Circus is my current favorite. I'm not ashamed to say that I prefer the mindless fun of blasting hordes of creatures to exploration or adventure games.

I think it's going to be a circus for them. I know Ken Hitchcock was sitting in his office for the last year and a half trying to come up with a system to defend against the no red line (two-line pass). So look for him to come up with something. I know in Minnesota, Jacques is trying to do the same thing. It's interesting to see what's going to work. We're going to have to work in a lot of systems to try to counteract no red line.

I think it's going to be a circus for them,

I think both of them share the view that we want to de-escalate this, get this out of the media circus and do what's right for the boy.

I think it tastes like a circus peanut.

I will spare you a gushy description of the dive itself, except to say that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

I said, 'They gave me a transplant. Now people think I'm a circus freak.

My progression into acting was pretty slow. I was constantly performing in different kinds of small shows. One year I would be in a magic show, the next year in a circus show, then a small play, and then a dance show.

Literature has always had its circus side, its freaks and its frivolities - and maybe that's all part of it, and no bad thing if it draws people towards what is most worthwhile.

I think Ill be a clown when I get grown.. Yes, sir, a clown. There aint one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so Im gonna join the circus and laugh my head off Im gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks. Just looka yonder, every one of em oughta be ridin a broomstick.

I was proud of the kids. We kept our heads when that circus was going on.

We'll have face painting and hula hoop games and other circus challenges, as well as novelty photo ops things like that.

There is literally nothing Mr. Carmines will not use - gallops, waltzes, polkas, circus blares and musical bumps and grinds - to get his work done.

Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

I've been through everything. I always said I was like those round-bottomed circus dolls — you know, those dolls you could push down and they'd come back up? I've always been like that. I've always said, No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I'm going to come right back up.

One day the good times had to keep on rolling, and all of life's horseshit would turn to circuses.

You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town

In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus.

Damn everything but the circus

Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?

We only have the circus once a year. I'd like to see another big turnout.

To think you have to get to the pension board meetings early, it just goes to show what a circus the city has become.

The players do not have to lift themselves, they know their responsibilities. I am sure we will hear a lot over the next few days about how we are not going to be playing European football after Christmas. There will be a circus but we have to remove ourselves from that.

Without giving too much away, the storyline centers around a family that seeks to live out their dreams of becoming circus stars and the journey that takes them there. The story serves as the narrative thread that takes the audience through the show.

Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.

What was a small personal matter became, over the last two years, an almost fatal circus of unprecedented proportion,

We have done the Shanghai Circus and the National Acrobats of China in the past. And each time the audiences have been amazed by the daring feats of the performers.

Even though they probably didn't know it at the time, circus performers were practicing physics and math. Yes, it's fun and colorful, but you're still learning. You're learning without even knowing you are.

Fear is not a word that describes what I feel when I step out on a tee with Tiger. He's the best player in the world. But it's more of a challenge. That's the word. Challenge. I love that challenge. I love that stage. To play with Tiger, and to see the circus that surrounds you, it makes me focus on my game. It's intense. A different atmosphere.

I've been through a circus in Cleveland and this hasn't been near that, ... Whoever is going to play, we just want to win the ballgame. That's what everybody's interested in, no matter who's back there.

The risk here isn't turning courtrooms into a circus or unduly invading someone's privacy. The risk is the danger we pose to our society and our democracy when we close off our institutions to the people they're supposed to serve.

Thank God the circus will be over then, and we can play baseball.

Compared to what I'm used to, it was a circus out there today,

A special election would be nothing but a freak show and a circus act.

This circus is an icon in the African-American community. Because it is multicultural, all people can come and enjoy the circus. The dress and the music appeals to the audience. We're hip.

This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.

This case is a circus and they've made it that way (pointing to the defense team). If they're going to refer me to the state bar, I'll refer them to the U.S. attorney.

This is the same circus as last year. It's the same production company that does the Shrine Circus in Omaha that just ended.

There's an old saying that you can't open a new circus until the old circus leaves town. It was just inevitable that this is going to continue to hang over their heads because the investigation continues. The Libby-Rove-Cheney story continues to have legs, and it's going to continue to for some time. And the war still goes on.

At halftime, we talked about 'Let's just show some semblance of a half-court defense and some offense. We took a lot of circus shots in the first half.

It was the most crazy semester I've ever had. I did learn a lot about time management and work ethic, though. I took classes in the morning, at night and online. It was entertaining, I'm sure, to watch me juggle everything like a circus monkey.

It's a whirlwind, it's a circus every game. We have to play better baseball so we can enjoy the circus.

It started out weird, and then it just kept getting more weird as the night went on. I don't know of much that didn't happen in that game. Even when we kicked off, it was an adventure. I was just happy that our kids did eventually take control. I was waiting for them to play circus music at any time over the loud speaker, because that is what it seemed like.

It just got to be too much of a circus and I wanted to put the music back in the show, so I created this idea of doing what I've called the b-sides.

It's gone from a circus act to a regular city. The experience of Las Vegas now is less Rat Pack and more brats in the car, from Dino (Dean Martin) and his friends and swingers to minivans and shopping malls. It's just a big Western city.

It sounds like a circus -- like you won stuff at a carnival,