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Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.

I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a clown,' he said. 'There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.' You got it backwards, Dill,' said Jem. 'Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them.' Well I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

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

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

I went to a tent store. "What kind of tent do you need?" "Circus."

I'm actually not a huge circus fan in the traditional sense, but I like a lot of the circus trappings of striped tents and caramel. I lean more towards Cirque du Soleil than Barnum and Bailey.

A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.

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.

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.

Clowns make me... Think.

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

I never got to see the circus... I was always in love with being a trapeze artist, though.

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

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 comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

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.

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

Damn everything but the circus.

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