It's true I have a side of me that isn't very adult. I can get very emotional about things. I can become crazy, act the clown.
I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a clown,' he said. 'There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.' You got it backwards, Dill,' said Jem. 'Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them.' Well I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.
I'm always trying to play pranks on people and doing silliness, singing extremely badly and extremely loudly on set.
I'm a professional hanger outer. I'm a super liability, too. I joke around, and I'm like a hyperactive child.
Clowntime is over Time to take cover While others just talk and talk Somebody's watching where the others don't walk.
Neil Simon didn't like it too much when we came out in clown makeup. We stopped doing that.
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 .
It's a dirty job being ridiculous, but I'll do it
and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?
I was a monkey child. I was like a clown.
We're the court jesters of rock.
I enjoy doing physical comedy. I'd love, you know, them to throw me some shtick that way. I'd love to do that, if they need physical comedy, if they'd let me display my wares that way.
I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown?
I really wasn't a class clown.
I just always had a penchant for performing for people.I'm a jackass clown.
My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.
My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family.
I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.
The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.
Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.
In all honesty, I never actually did anything wrong (in my eyes, at least) at school or misbehaved in any big way. If it was anything, it was probably just a lot of clowning around.
Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
Latins are into clowns.
I've always had a crazy sense of humor. So the ballet probably wouldn't have been enough for me. I had to clown around a little bit more.
I went through a phase where I thought it was really funny to make pratfalls in very crowded places. I jumped out of a moving car once, for a laugh. That was a mistake.
