Top 44 Clowns Quotes

I’m scared of clowns.

I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that’s the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.

Clowns are meant to make people smile. That’s my goal.

I want people to watch us and think, ‘They’re idiots. They’re clowns,’ I want them to watch us and think Tommy Cooper or Spike Milligan.

I don’t think any of us think of ourselves as artists or actors – clowns, we’ll accept that label.

I definitely do not like Halloween. I don’t like masks, creepy clowns, dark things, goblins or witches. They’re not just my thing.

99.5 percent of the people that walk around and say they are a social media expert or guru are clowns. We are going to live through a devastating social media bubble.

I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

I think that when you’ve got a world in which it’s plausible to have a guy dressed as a giant bat and fight evil clowns and other nightmarish freaks, I think the world has to be visually a little more arresting than a regular world.

I like the clowns from the circus that have more paint on their face. They were all funny and made me laugh. As a kid, I remember the clowns that were all in white reminded me more of death than circus clowns. It can be a scary thing.

‘Poltergeist’ was really the film that really scarred, but fascinated, me with puppets and dolls, clowns and stuff like that.

Class clowns become actors.

I think a lot of comedians make the best dramatic actresses because they have a facility. They’re very vulnerable. They’re very open, like clowns.

I don’t have a negative perception of clowns.

Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

There are a lots of clowns in our family – our house is a fun house.

When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.

‘Occupy’ is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

I was always writing. I was writing in high school because it was a really competitive school for class clowns; I used to have to write all of my snaps and my disses the night before and then act like I was making it up the next day.

Red House Painters were doing cover songs before our first record deal. I remember live shows where we did an AC/DC song; I think we did ‘Send In The Clowns’ by Judy Collins. We did ‘The Star Spangled Banner,’ which came out on our third record.

I don’t give a crap about clowns.

Eighty per cent of my output is ‘Mallory clowns on the Western canon,’ and I’m happy to be that person.

Other comedians got love for me. But don’t get it twisted – I’m not a clown, I’m a comedian and work hard as an artist. Clowns go to college.

We all have fears, especially when we’re younger. I was afraid of clowns.

I’m not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I’m really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

I enjoyed clowns when I was a kid going to the circus. Mainly I mean the good clowns, when you go to a circus.

We always talked about the sequel to ‘Clown’ being called ‘Clowns,’ like an ‘Alien’/’Aliens’ sorta thing, where you have multiple clowns. And just really make it, in the way that ‘Aliens’ was an action movie, do the same thing. Action-horror. That would be great.

I’ve resigned myself to the fact that the world needs clowns, too, and I was born to be one of them. And it is an important role in our society to play.

As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You know, it’s clowns and kid’s toys and bright colors and things like that.

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

I really didn’t want to expand the negative vision of clowns because clowns are not intrinsically scary.

We knew we were different, even from our elementary school days. We were the class clowns; we engaged with people differently. We knew there was something out there that was meant for us.

All people are sad clowns. That’s the key to comedy – and it’s a buffer against reality.

If LeBron James, Phil Mickelson, or Reggie Bush had to rely on personality to make it in this world, they’d all be incredibly athletic rodeo clowns.

I think the reason people are propping up drag queens is because it’s popular with the fans that identify with them, so we’re great for marketing. We’re not allowed to be the Christmas tree, we’re just allowed to be the decorations, and I still think we’re looked at as clowns by a majority of the society.

Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don’t know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don’t know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

People pull from drag culture because drag artists are – it’s the ultimate art form and it’s the last underdog art form. I mean, even clowns have college, you know what I mean? Drag queens, you have to learn drag from another drag queen.

The first time I encountered Stephen Sondheim was like everyone else: through snatches of old songs people performed in drama school, through ‘Send in the Clowns,’ which everyone knew. I wasn’t aware at the time that he was the writing force behind ‘West Side Story’ and ‘Gypsy.’

Latins are into clowns.

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.

I was not the young heroic model for ‘Hamlet.’ I tended to play those characters that orbited around them: the rogues and the rat bags and the idiots and the fools and the clowns that sway the plot somehow from a tangent.

I have a penchant for playing God’s clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God’s clown.