A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.
Emmett Kelly

All the world loves a clown.
Cole Porter

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.
Fanny Brice

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan

By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.
Karl Rove

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.
Marc Maron

Dare to wear the foolish clown face.
Frank Sinatra

Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.
Douglas Wood

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

Even at Westchester High in West LA, I was class clown.
Phil Hartman

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.
Janeane Garofalo

I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.
Nathan Lane

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.
Diane Cilento

I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.
Jennifer Lopez

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
Steven Wright

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.
Hugh Jackman

I made a living out of being a class clown.
Shannon Hoon

I really wasn't a class clown.
Kevin James

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
Charlie Chaplin