Clown Character Quotes

The Joker is a tremendous vehicle for talented actors. Cesar Romero's was a bubbly, lunatic criminal. Nicholson did him as a vain, preening manipulator. Heath's performance of the Joker was remarkable, too. His was a low-simmering crazy street clown. Joker can be played all these ways, and they're all true.

I loved being my father's audience and watching him in front of the mirror as he talked to himself made up like a clown.

It's kind of fun to be a clown. I've always played the clown. The clowns come on, get the biggest, juiciest laughs, and then leave.

Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

I took a couple of classes in clowning, but that was more like Lucille Ball kind of slapstick, not Ringling Brothers. But we had to do things silently, and the teacher would do this running commentary. 'Does this make Clown sad? Oh, Clown doesn't like that, does Clown?' Always 'Clown.' Never a name.

Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.

My mom used to play a lot of super character-y parts... so I was sort of raised to be a clown.

These are truly special days we live in - where a clown in a gown can make her very own drag queen revenge-comedy.

A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.