A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
Burt Lancaster

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
H. L. Mencken

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.
Federico Fellini

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E. B. White

Damn everything but the circus.
Corita Kent

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.
Erica Jong

I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home.
Emmett Kelly

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
Al Lewis

I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.
Roberto Benigni

I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.
Laurell K. Hamilton

I will always remember this summer day in Paris, when I was to perform a great acrobatic move. I can still see myself stepping on the ring of a packed circus along real performers.
Tony Curtis

I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.
Philip Green

I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!
George Sidney

It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.
Samuel West

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.
Terry Gilliam

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
George Carlin

Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
David Niven

KISS Psycho Circus is my current favorite. I'm not ashamed to say that I prefer the mindless fun of blasting hordes of creatures to exploration or adventure games.
Mike Wilson

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
Edgar Watson Howe