All people are sad clowns. That's the key to comedy - and it's a buffer against reality.
I'ma be here for a while. None of these clowns can hurt me.
I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.
Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
I want to be a family entertainer.
I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.
The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.
Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand.
A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast.
I went to a tent store. "What kind of tent do you need?" "Circus."
I would borrow my mom's red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown!
Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.
No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable
Clowns are always creepy!
I'm the goofball. I'm the person cracking people up.
Travis: I didn’t know they made permanent makeup. I looked like a clown for a month. Connor: Yeah. They put a curse on me so that no matter what I wore, my clothes were two sizes too small and I felt like a geek. Travis: You are a geek.
My job is to bring the tickle. I know what's funny.
Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.
The press portrayed me as a joke and a clown.
Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!
Not only was I an 'X Factor' winner that got dropped by Syco - and when that happens, you're never heard of again - but everyone thought I was a clown.
It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.
Clowns make me... Think.
I started after him...and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was." "Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly. "It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town.
