Top 140 Clown Quotes

I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things.

I once went with my grandson to a county fair where you shoot a water pistol at the clown’s mouth. We came home with twelve stuffed animals and a goldfish.

I was the hallway clown in high school.

I was the class clown, but I was also student body president in high school.

My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.

I’m not quiet, nor am I the class clown. I pick my moments.

I refuse to listen to Rush Limbaugh. I listen to a lot of conservative radio when I drive around in my car. I refuse to listen to him because he’s just ridiculous, just a clown. I love Rachel Maddow obviously.

I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.

If you’ve ever been to a great clown show, there’s always a moment where the clown goes into the house and fuses with the audience. There’s something fantastic about the improv of it all.

I’m not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school – got suspended a lot.

I would borrow my mom’s red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown!

I am quite old-fashioned: I wouldn’t consciously think ‘I am going to dress up in a sexy manner’ because it’s just not me. I like to look cheeky, friendly and approachable, and I wear bright colours, like a clown.

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 think I was always a class clown growing up and a funny kid. I never really knew how to channel that until I got into high school.

Growing up the way that I did – I grew up with a lot of cousins – you just have this imagination, and I love going and telling different stories. I’m a clown.

The first thing I wanted to be was a clown.

I was the class clown in high school, but I always took it too far, so nobody liked me. I was annoying. Like, I would get a laugh and then keep going and keep going.

I wasn’t a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

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.

I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.

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

I was never the class clown or put on shows at home. I never thought of acting as something I could do with my life. When I was a kid, I used to run around wrapped in toilet paper so I could be the Mummy. But that wasn’t a sign that I was dreaming of being an actor. I was just an odd child.

‘Poltergeist’ was the film that scarred me for life. I saw it at such a young age – 5 or 6 years old – and it has one of the creepiest doll sequences with the clown, and ever since then, I’ve just been fascinated by dolls.

All the world loves a clown.

George Carlin’s album, ‘Class Clown,’ came out when I was in high school. I memorized a lot of that album. I’d come home from school, put it on, and listen over and over. I started memorizing it. I don’t even know why. I loved it so much I memorized it.

It’s really easy with makeup to look like you’re trying too hard, like a clown. That’s not what you want!

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

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

I’m a student of comedy in general, so I’ve always loved Billy Crystal. But I’m a different type of showman. I’m a clown and a jester.

When I’m with my friends I’m funny, but I don’t feel like I’m a funny clown.

I was a class clown.

It’s been hard to gain acceptance in England without the clown makeup because I wore the costume as part of my act for so long.

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

I never knew anyone who have growing up who had a clown at their birthday party. They are something I think of as being from the past. So I never had strong feelings about them. I do think that they can be creepy, I guess it depends on the clown.

I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn’t the class clown at all.

I get all dressed up in fuchsia, looking like a clown, and show pretty pictures to people.

I was quite hyperactive as a young kid, and then when I got to high school I was just the class clown. I didn’t have much of an attention span.

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.

To my family and friends, I’m very definitely a clown. But do you know what? Doing a drama would almost seem easy because I wouldn’t need to find that gag in a line.

I like to be at a party and be a quiet observer, be in conversation. I wouldn’t say I was a class clown growing up, but I would definitely sit back in class and take snipes at the teacher.

I’m a real paradox. Because I’m a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.

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

The Joker is a tremendous vehicle for talented actors. Cesar Romero’s was a bubbly, lunatic criminal. Nicholson did him as a vain, preening manipulator. Heath’s performance of the Joker was remarkable, too. His was a low-simmering crazy street clown. Joker can be played all these ways, and they’re all true.

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.

A film set is all about hierarchy, but I always like to think about the circus. In the circus, there’s this real sense of tribalism, and they’re all on the road together. I don’t think the ring leader is more important than the clown. They all work together, and I think that I felt that on ‘The East.’

I’d never been the class clown and comedy was not a fulfilment of a dream.

I have been called a clown in football – but if I don’t go onto the field with a laugh and smile, I shouldn’t be doing it.

Here’s my story: My mother and I were at Cirque du Soleil, looking down on Shiner doing his act. She was always tolerant of my being a clown, but I don’t remember her rolling with laughter. But with Shiner, she could not sit up straight!

I used to hate that my lips are gigantic, and now I have huge red clown lips, and I love it.

Dare to wear the foolish clown face.

I used to be called a post-modern clown. But now, post-modernism is a quaint notion, too.

I’m a clown. I’m a comedian. Comedy, by design, is a place to explore the subconscious.

I came on board ‘Clown’ because it was a very simple story, and it was a very nice script and a very refreshing take on a kind of The Brothers Grimm fable, you know?

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

My career actually started in the second grade as class clown. That’s no joke. I was always making people laugh, and it was really to mask a learning disability… When it came time for me to read out loud, I would crack jokes or create a diversion.

I think I was always the class clown.

I spent most of my days in school being a class clown. I never shut up. By the time I was in middle school, I had myself a personal aide.

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

A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a lecture in a high squeaky voice from inhaling helium. It is written nowhere in the math of probability theory that one may have no fun.

Some directors are really strong on action, manhandling you around the set; others are very focused on setting up the camera shots and practically ignore you. You have to get used to introverts, extroverts, directors who clown around for the crew, and the odd one who’s monosyllabic.

I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I’d make sure they’d like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.

I had no interest in sports so I didn’t make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.