Clown Quotes

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person.

A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.

I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

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

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.

The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.

I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.

It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'

I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like 'Clown' and 'Mountains' that were my songs that I wanted to keep. But the record labels saw me as a songwriter. It was hard to get people to believe in me as an artist.

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.

I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'

I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.

My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.

You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they'd still say I'm a dark personality.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.

By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made.

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

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.

In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.

Even at Westchester High in West LA, I was class clown.

I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.

I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.