Clown Quotations | Page 2

The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.

Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker.

I really wasn't a class clown.

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

No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable

My mother-in-law is obsessed with clowns.

You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them.

There is no question that [Dan] Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly realized that the best diversion from Bush is to put on a clown show.

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

At this point, if I were to psychoanalyze myself, I'd have to say I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular person.

My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.

Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost

I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with me or at me.

I sort of think of myself as part priest, part clown.

There are a lots of clowns in our family - our house is a fun house.

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

Everyone hates clowns," Otis said. "Even other clowns hate clowns.

I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.

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

Do those clowns really believe what they teach?

He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.

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

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am...

Clowns work as well as aspirin, but twice as fast.

A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast.

Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.

Nobody likes a clown at midnight