Famous Quotes & Sayings

Quentin Crisp

It is not a biopic; it is not a trawl through the facts of somebody's life. It is more an evening with a Shakespearean clown who speaks the truth and was whipped for his pains. Writing the play made me love and loathe my country more: love it that it could create, and has always created, one-offs like Quentin; loathe it for its rejection of him.

Paula Gonzalez

He was funny, he had this huge sense of humor. He was just a clown all the time. He was just incredible.

Mary Lou Williams

He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously.

Jaime Camil

When you do a good comedy show, you have to understand that if you don't have drama or sad moments, then the comedy turns into a clowning kind of situation.

Gina Bellman

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.

Orla Brady

I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.

Margaret Rutherford

You never have a comedian who hasn't got a very deep strain of sadness within him or her. Every great clown has been very near to tragedy.

Frank Miller

'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.

Brad Goreski

I am preppy, geek-chic with a touch of Bozo the Clown with a touch of 'Showgirls.' Sometimes, I look at myself and think I should put on a red nose, white face and maybe entertain some kids.

Bethenny Frankel

I have always been a business person.

Walter Salles

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

Chris Elliott

I'm not a competitive person.

Cesar Chavez

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

Al Goldstein

The true success is the person who invented himself.

Aristotle

A person's life persuades better than his word.

Aldo Leopold

An oak is no respecter of persons.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself.

Agatha Christie

Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If I lose you, I lose everything

Becca Fitzpatrick

I'm yours, if you'll have me.

C. S. Lewis

If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now

Carl Sagan

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

Paul Rodio

There are so many ifs with this group.

Carl Jung

Because if you're gonna make someone choose, then you shouldn't be surprised when they don't choose you.

Anton LaVey

What good are friends if they cant do you any good?

Billie Joe Armstrong

You can't go voicing something if it's just not right.

Ayn Rand

The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong - and no consideration or discussion of the issues is necessary or appropriate.