Erin Morgenstern Quotes

How can you have a rock n' roll circus without a midget?

This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.

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.

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!

Damn everything but the circus.

The circus is the only spectacle I know, that while you watch it, givrd the quslity of a very happy dream.

The greatest thing I can remember in my whole career was the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey clowns asking me to appear with them at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in 1965.

I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.

The circus leaves a sweet memory.

The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish.

I always liked circuses, so I would have enjoyed that.

I could spend my whole life photographing circuses. They combine everything I'm interested in - they're ironic, poetic, and corny at the same time. There's also something about a circus that's magical, sentimental, and almost tragic, like a Fellini film.

I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.

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.

When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It was just one big tent, and he was a lion tamer. He didn't have any kids, but the bit was that I would dress up as his son in an identical outfit.

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.

My first riding partners were Mark Henry, The Great Khali and Daivari. It was the traveling circus.

The circus is a global theme. It exists in all parts of the world - maybe not in Africa, but it exists in Asia in all parts. In Latin America, it's difficult to find a person who hasn't gone to the circus.

The very first time I went to Madison Square Garden, I went to see the circus.

I've said it from the very beginning: Fighting the best guys in the world doesn't pay as good as the circus. I want to join the circus. I'm trying to get that circus money.

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