Matt Letscher Quotes

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

All the world loves a clown.

A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

I'm one of the most popular cabaret performers, and I don't sing a note. And nobody expects me to sing.

The first thing I wanted to be was a clown.

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world.

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

I don't think any of us think of ourselves as artists or actors - clowns, we'll accept that label.

I made people laugh as a kid, but that's not how you make a living.

To have a job making people laugh really is the greatest thing.

Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.

Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

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

All I know is just how to make people laugh.

I love standing at a microphone and making a room of people laugh. That's the part of the work I love; everything else is extraneous.

Since childhood, I've been a clown. I've always liked being very funny or trying to make people laugh. It's my original self.

When I'm on stage, that's a job. It's acting, it's faking, just making fun of yourself, telling bad jokes - I'm pretty good in this - dancing, just to entertain.

I did clown training for months.

I'm clown realness!

I think I was born to be a clown. I just haven't figured out how to bring that side of myself into the world of filmmaking. It's much more comfortable for me to cry on a film set than it is to tell a joke.

What I loved about wrestling was just being foolish, so I studied clown. I studied clown. I studied the art of clown. I actually did my thesis on clown.

Be a clown , be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool , play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh .

I'm an entertainer, period. I can write it, I can speak it, and I can act it.

I came out of the womb singing, dancing, and telling awkward jokes.