I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
In the Stephen Sondheim song, when something bad happens in the circus, they send in the clowns. In America’s political circus, they send in the lawyers.
My first tour I did was The Warped Tour, and I was likening myself to the bearded lady at the circus because not only was I an actor touring, doing rock n’ roll, but I was also a female front person making really muscular, male-dominated rock music.
Fame hasn’t really affected me. I have a really close knit group around me, and my sister is always with me, so it’s like a bit of a travelling circus.
When you see the numbers who come to the circus, you understand that we don’t get that by abusing animals.
In the Stephen Sondheim song, when something bad happens in the circus, they send in the clowns. In America’s political circus, they send in the lawyers.
Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.
We didn’t reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown. I didn’t want to be an actor, I wanted to join the circus and entertain people.
The circus was born with animals, horses at the start. This is part of our cultural heritage. It’s a whole, with clowns and acrobats.
You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.
I think if you’re able to make the music you want and you can do it in the right kind of context, you don’t have to be a circus ringleader to be successful.
So we see Edward as a young man on the road and he meets a giant and he brings the giant to a circus where he meets a Miss Calloway. He sees the woman of his dreams and I am the only one who knows who she is.
It’s always fun catching up with the other players because so many of them were really good mates when I was playing on the main tour. The thing you miss when you give up is that camaraderie that you experienced because, for 35 weeks of the year, it really is a travelling circus.
At any moment, one company stands in the spotlight of the middle ring in the stock market’s never-ending circus. It may not be the biggest corporation in the world, or the most profitable, but somehow it both mirrors and leads the market’s broader action.
Someone like Raj Kapoor is born once in 100 years. He was a one-man circus all by himself.
My job is to make the case that I’ll do the best job possible representing the people of Georgia’s Sixth District, and what they want is representation that’s focused on them and not this national partisan political circus.
I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films – I saw my father suffer through that.
For better or worse, I have a lot of vaudeville circus skills that you just can’t showcase in Aaron Sorkin’s work.
Being an actor is pretty much like being in the circus.
I’m certainly a real homebody. But the truth is that I understand that desire to, in a way, go join the circus. That’s what got me out of Long Island and into show business. I was like, ‘I’m just going to have an adventure. I want to be a person that isn’t surrounded by their mail and their cat.’
Circus is the magic you should show your children.
I’m a street photographer, but I’m interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there’s something very romantic about a circus.
I don’t believe in preachy films. I don’t like such films. Having said that, I don’t even enjoy films that only ‘entertain.’ That way, even the circus entertains.
You name it, I’ve done it: circus, Chautauqua, variety, movies, stage, radio, TV, personal appearances.
The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.
When I first became involved with PETA, it was on an ‘issue-by-issue’ basis – they interviewed me in my old apartment about animal abuse in the circus as I sat on a leather sofa.
I’ve been very fortunate. I’ve been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce – I’ve been in a musical and in music halls, in pantomime. I was once ringmaster in a circus.
What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.
I haven’t had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home.
Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.
Pittsburgh felt like the perfect size of a city to me. There’s enough to do, but it’s not like living in a circus. I also really loved how sports-enthusiastic Pittsburgh people are: how proud of their sports they are.
There’s an old saying in football – the circus doesn’t stay in town forever. The older you get, the more you realize there’s a deeper meaning. It’s better to leave 3 hours too soon than a minute too late.
I grew up on movie sets, I’m comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don’t understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.
I dress well. I travel; I seem to be relatively glamorous for a film guy – which, to me, is like being the fastest midget in the circus.
By the time ‘Dumbo’s Circus’ wrapped production of its 120 episodes, I had an agent, and I had scored my first feature film gig.
My house is basically a trailer. I live a circus lifestyle. I’m always moving. It’s not always easy for people that live with me, but that’s the path I chose.
There’ll probably be moments in my life where it seems that people will want to camp out on my doorstep, and moments when no one wants to hire me and couldn’t be less interested. I’ve been around the circus, and it’ll come and go.
I thought a circus environment would be an interesting venue to explore, where you didn’t just have one tent with three rings and a show going on but where you could explore different things in different tents.
When I did finally get to the circus as an adult, I was very impressed by the trapeze artist. But, being 6 feet 3 inches and over 200 pounds, there was no way I could do a trapeze act. If I fell I’d take the catcher with me.
Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.
I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in ‘Dumbo’s Circus.’ I’m used to getting in an argument with myself, throwing myself off a cliff, patching myself up and brushing myself off with an arm around my shoulder.
It’s weird: making a movie is like life compacted into three months. You have these very intense relationships with people, and you talk to them every day – your editor, the casting people, music people, your actors – then it ends. It’s like a circus life.
The Premier League is a circus, it’s constantly changing. It’s full of emotion, ups and downs, unpredictability and this makes it the spectacle that it is.
Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater – making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us.
When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life with the big cats.
I don’t get to do a lot of fight scenes on ‘Sanctuary,’ but I’m a trained fighter; I’ve been doing martial arts for years and, you know, I’m very active physically; I used to be a circus performer.
I will always remember this summer day in Paris, when I was to perform a great acrobatic move. I can still see myself stepping on the ring of a packed circus along real performers.
I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.
There are certainly times when baseball is much more than bread and circus, times when baseball resonates deeply and meaningfully with many, many people, and times when a game that is built around overcoming failure can teach us all a few important lessons.
What happened was, my parents after ‘Circus Boy’ decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school. It was the smartest thing they ever did.
If you want to be anonymous, you can go to Soho or Camden, and it’s not a problem. There are a lot of Spanish people. If you go to Piccadilly or Oxford Circus, you hear lots of Spanish voices, but I’m not recognised much.
I don’t have a circus around me, and that’s a choice. I like to be on Planet Earth as much as possible.
Forty years ago, the players were like a travelling circus – we went everywhere together and were pretty good friends.
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
I’ve had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn’t have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I’m all show business!
