Adam Clayton Quotes

I was just a ham since about the age of five. If I was performing at Medieval Times or something, I'd be the court jester. That was always my defense mechanism. I was never all that funny; I was just obnoxious and loud.

I would make people who bullied me laugh, so that's my defense mechanism.

I was a timid little guy when I was a kid. I used humor as a defense; I became the class clown. But deep inside, I felt real vulnerable.

I was a class clown since second grade.

I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

I was the fat kid, so as a defense mechanism, I was the jokester.

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they would get distracted and just laugh. I was pretty brutally picked on for a while growing up. It was always the really pretty girls, the hot girls and then there was me. So I had to do something to get any sort of attention.

When I was a kid, I was super shy.

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.

I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

My wife asked me once if I weren't a comedian what I would do. I couldn't answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.

I was always a bit of a class clown.

I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.

I made a living out of being a class clown.

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

Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy.

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.

I was a shy kid, wasn't necessarily an extrovert, but I couldn't help doing voices.

I was always the class clown, and I think I gravitated toward performing for the attention I didn't always think I was getting at home.

Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.

Growing up, I loved comedy even before I knew that you could be a stand-up comedian.

I was always the wise guy class clown throughout my childhood.