I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.
Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.
Kings kill; clowns don't; therefore the clowns of the kings are more valuable than the kings!
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.
I was the hallway clown in high school.
You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them.
My stepfather used to be a clown in The Shrine Circus. He took me backstage when I was 23. I saw three elephants chained to the cement floor in the warehouse of the Michigan State Fairgrounds. Sadness, hopelessness and fear were emanating from their eyes, from their bodies. They were swaying neurotically from side to side. A monkey was screaming in his cage, grabbing the bars of his prison. Two tigers were pacing feverishly in their tiny cages. Cruelty was staring me in the face. I knew something was wrong. If you pay attention to energy, you can tell when a fellow being is in peril.
It seems a fine line between being a matador and being a rodeo clown
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
I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh. At the same time, you have people in the hospital who have had gastric bypass or lap-band surgery and they still have to work out. If you don't work out and eat healthy, you'll look like a melted candle.
Sometimes, I get in a mindset where I don't like my own music. I hate yourself and my music because I'm doing it every day. I feel like a clown.
Sure, I could of done it different. . . put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.
When are the world's political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal,. . . trash can, clown face,. . . dollar bill with bat wings on it?
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 scared of clowns.
If I wasn't an actor and I watched my films, I could easily be like 'This guy's a clown,' you know?
I hate clowns and I would never do anything getting near a clown, I can't go to the circus.
Clowns don't build institutions, nor do boxers.
I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown.
They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.