Clown Makeup Quotes

I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.

Clowns are always creepy!

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

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.

I like the clowns from the circus that have more paint on their face. They were all funny and made me laugh. As a kid, I remember the clowns that were all in white reminded me more of death than circus clowns. It can be a scary thing.

As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.

Neil Simon didn't like it too much when we came out in clown makeup. We stopped doing that.

Since childhood, I've been a clown. I've always liked being very funny or trying to make people laugh. It's my original self.

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 wore white kabuki makeup, had blue-black hair. At one point, I shaved an inch and a half around my hairline and continued the white makeup up so it made my head look slightly deformed. I thought it was hilarious.

I look like a hobo?" "Worse," he said. "Like a sad hobo clown." "And you like it?" "I love it." As soon as he said it, she broke into a smile. And when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside of him. Something always did.

It's been hard to gain acceptance in England without the clown makeup because I wore the costume as part of my act for so long.

I don't give a crap about clowns.

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.

I have always found clowns really fascinating, especially on film. Even as a kid I was never scared of them.

Latins are into clowns.

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

When I was dressed as a clown in all that make-up I used to shed pounds every night and got agonising kidney stones because I was sweating so much.

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.

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

I don't even like clowns. Clowns are not normal people.

I hate clowns. I've mentioned that, right?

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown. I didn't want to be an actor, I wanted to join the circus and entertain people.

There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns...and clowns. (Bobby Pendragon)