Animal Acts Quotes

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 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'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.

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.

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.

How can you have a rock n' roll circus without a midget?

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.

My first riding partners were Mark Henry, The Great Khali and Daivari. It was the traveling 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.

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

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

This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.

When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.

I could spend my whole life photographing circuses. They combine everything I'm interested in - they're ironic, poetic, and corny at the same time. There's also something about a circus that's magical, sentimental, and almost tragic, like a Fellini film.

I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish.

My good friend Paul Shaffer and I are going to continue in show business. Next month Paul and I will debut our new act at Caesar's Palace with our white tigers.