Clown Quotes

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.

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

I suppose that I'm fairly comfortable with the clown hat on.

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.

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

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

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

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.

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

Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.

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'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.

If I wasn't an actor and I watched my films, I could easily be like 'This guy's a clown,' you know?

People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer.

I really wasn't a class clown.

I made a living out of being a class clown.

Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

I was a class clown.

I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.

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

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

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