Famous Quotes & Sayings

I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.

When we clown, we clown. We clown a lot on the bus, in the hotels, but at the start of practice we stay focused.

We're going to have a really cool bunge wall, a rock wall, a clown something for all the kids.

Benjamin Franklin

He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.

Tyrus Thomas

We're not an uptight bunch. We just like to have fun. A lot of coaches like the team to be quiet and focused before a game. The way we focus is to clown around. We think about the task at hand. But we don't worry. We like to have fun, study and practice hard.

Bob Dylan

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.

Terry Crews

I am an official slow-roasted, honey-baked ham. Ever since I was a kid, my thing is that I love attention. All my report cards are like, 'He would be wonderful, but he just can't stop being a clown in class.'

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.

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.

Haley Bennett

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

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.

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.

Tim Hudson

When he played, he had that clown reputation. There were a lot of guys like that, but he stood out. As a pitching coach, he's going to be awesome. He's personable, easygoing, and he seems excited to be here. It will be good. We don't need to work all the time.

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.

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.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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.

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.

When you get old, you get tense, and part of my clowning is to relax myself.

Tom Wilson

To say the traditional Scottish dress makes you look like a clown is a direct insult to people of Scottish heritage and those who live in Scotland.

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.

John Clay

Each clown goes through his or her own discovery process,

Nathan Lane

Run! When she wrote about me, I was the clown who cried, and you'll be the costumer who cried. 'Oh, poor William! Fourteen houses and no boyfriend!

He's amazing. He's a clown on the team, but he loves this game. It looks like he plays with ease.

Dan Castellaneta

That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to clown college!

We have a core group of clowns and we're all dealing with the emotions. We have to support each other. We have a strong net that keeps us from falling.

I'm not an artist. I'm an actor. I like to goof around and clown for people. It's a fun job. But I don't feel that I'm creating something that's going to have a profound effect on the world. It's fun.

Donald Trump, an oft-bankrupt make-believe mogul clown with a television show where he pretends to fire America's saddest former celebrities, is one of the Republican Party's most prominent national figures because he is on TV and people have heard of him.

I learned my lesson there. I was playing with Thompson and made the mistake of not respecting his determination. I left the gap and he took it. It was a hard lesson. It cost me a world title. But I promise you one thing. You won't ever see me clowning around again.

It was no longer a social instrument. It was now a performance (instrument) by clowns in blackface performing a very racist stage show to a seated audience.

Roger Bart

It's kind of fun to be a clown. I've always played the clown. The clowns come on, get the biggest, juiciest laughs, and then leave.