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  • I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer.

    Silly   Moon   Class  
    "Dick Van Dyke Discusses His Career in Entertainment". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. September 22, 2000.
  • So many things suddenly made sense for the clowns, for the whole idea. I’d been going through a struggle, particularly after 9/11; I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to say. I still wanted the work to be the same kind of mixture – intense, with a nasty side or an ugly side, but also with a real pathos about the characters – and clowns have an underlying sense of sadness while they’re trying to cheer people up. Clowns are sad, but they’re also psychotically, hysterically happy.

    Cheer   Real   Struggle  
  • I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.

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

    Order   Perception   Want  
  • Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and out of cover on the plains and highlands. And at night, when the whole world belongs to them, they parley at the river with the dogs, their higher, sharper voices full of authority and rebuke. They are an old council of clowns, and they are listened to.

    Dog   Night   Voice  
  • Here, kitty, kitty, Chico says. The cover of his cage is still on, making his tiny clown voice slightly muffled. I feel bad for him under there, just waiting to start his evil little day...Freud walks toward Chico in his slinky fashion, sits under his cage and just stares. We have satanic pets...our pets seem to have made a pact with the devil.

    Fashion   Voice   Evil  
  • No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions, most of these clowns don't read, can't write, and clearly can't add.

    Carl Hiaasen (2014). “Dance of the Reptiles: Rampaging Tourists, Marauding Pythons, Larcenous Legislators, Crazed Celebrities, and Tar-Balled Beaches: Selected Columns”, p.93, Vintage
  • They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I am reminded of the Greek clown who, having seen an archer bring down a flying bird, remarked, sagely: 'You might have saved your arrow, for the bird would anyway have been killed by the fall.'

    Fall   Archer   Arrows  
  • There's some sad things known to man, but ain't too much sadder than, the tears of a clown when noones around.

    Sadness   Men   Tears  
  • Trump has officially changed his name to Ronald because he's such a clown, and in sympathy his toupée is changing its name to Bozo.

    Names   Clown   Trump  
  • Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.

    Lying   Men   Simple  
  • Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became like the class clown. I became the one who was kicked around.

    Class   Hurtful   Ears  
  • Tried to escape, to block out the fact that I was being eaten alive by arachnids. For some reason the only thing I could replace it with was the image of being eaten by tiny clowns.

    Block   Alive   Tiny  
    David Wong (2012). “This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It”, p.97, Macmillan
  • Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.

    Party   Class   Likes  
  • Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

    "The Sun Watches the Sun" by Dejan Stojanovic, Sunce sebe gleda, Književna reč, Beograd, "Game III," (p. 98), 1999.
  • One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide variety of audiences. He could do the bawdy plays and the humor and the clowns-as you know, because you're a wonderful Stephano-that speaks to the populace, the masses, the groundlings, whatever.

    Artist   Play   Able  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • It seems a fine line between being a matador and being a rodeo clown

    Lines   Rodeo   Clown  
  • I would borrow my mom's red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown!

    Mom   Red   Clown  
    "'Miss Guided' Brooke Burns spills secrets" by Shawna Malcom, www.cnn.com. January 4, 2008.
  • I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up.

    Teacher   Math   Exercise  
    "Will Ferrell says growing up in Irvine made him funny". Interview with Barry Koltnow, www.ocregister.com. July 23, 2008.
  • In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

    Men   Artist   Order  
    Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.215, Bantam
  • The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

    Character   People   Fool  
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2013). “Don Quixote of La Mancha (Full Text)/ Introductory analysis and literary poem by Atidem Aroha.”, p.437, Alejandro's Libros
  • Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns.

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

    Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.
  • The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.

    Dog   Play   Usual  
    T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.215, Faber & Faber
  • I was just school class clown and that was it. Someday I'll get a job as a cab driver or whatever.

    Jobs   School   Class  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • 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.)

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

  • Is that love? It seems like a pale word, too easily tossed about by people who don’t know the meaning of it, who twist it for their own ends. I’m afraid of it now, right up there with clowns, close spaces, and open flames.

    Flames   Space   People  
    Ann Aguirre (2009). “Blue Diablo: A Corine Solomon Novel”, p.30, Penguin
  • 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.

    Sick   People   Clown  
    "Manic And Depressed, 'I Didn't Like Who I Was,' Says Comic Chris Gethard". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, wprl.org. May 5, 2017.
  • Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn't allow myself. But with this accent I can do it. I can talk with death in person because I am a clown. Yes. And I am proud to be a clown - very much.

    Comedian   Actors   Proud  
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