Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
R. L. Stine

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.
Jermaine Dupri

My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.
Sally Kellerman

My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family.
Robert Klein

People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer.
Tom Kenny

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.
Vaslav Nijinsky

People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
Gary Oldman

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

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.
Wavy Gravy

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.
Thomas Sydenham

The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.
Chris Matthews

The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
Victor Garber

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.
Lenny Kravitz

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.
Mel Gussow

When I'm with my friends I'm funny, but I don't feel like I'm a funny clown.
Nora Dunn

You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them.
Shia LaBeouf