Richard MacDonald Quotes

I've always got into stunts; even at drama school, I was falling down trap doors, and swinging in on ropes.

I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.

I did clown training for months.

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.

I've always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see a really bad juggler who's really funny.

I'm a really good juggler.

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

I thought I wanted to be a clown, because what would be better than making people laugh?

When I wasn't wrestling, I was always at the circus or at a show watching all these people - 'how do they make their stuff work for their audience?' That used to fascinate me as a child.

I used to take circus lessons. I dreamt of being picked up in the street because they saw me doing something circus-like.

I got into circuses and put on circuses in the backyard. My dad had horses and he'd bring them and we'd do horse tricks. I was 6 or 7 years old putting on circuses for the family or whoever in the backyard.

Bob's work gleaned from hoofing, from vaudeville, from ballet.

I actually went to circus school as a child. I think my specialty was walking on the big ball. You know the big ball you can walk on? Yes, I was quite good at it.

Naked acrobatics are on my resume.

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.

Now, juggling can be a lot of fun; play with skill and play with space, play with rhythm.

I can put my legs behind my head, but that's pretty much it. An early agent said to me, 'If you can put your legs behind your head, let's say you're a contortionist!' So I got sent out for everything twisty and bendy. It's a good conversation starter.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown.

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

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

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

I love Buster Keaton. I was a big fan of the stunt shows at Universal Studios. I'm a huge Cirque du Soleil nut.

Well, I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought, you know, this group is really reinventing the circus, as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals.