“I don't want to have to explain my love life to these clowns.”— Craig DiGregorio, Ryan, Luka Jones, imdb.com
“Elliot: Dr. Cox, does this shade of red make me look like a clown? Dr. Cox: No... Barbie, no. It makes you look like a prostitute that caters exclusively to clowns.”— Tim Hobert, Perry Cox, John C. McGinley, imdb.com
“Everything's fun when you're a kid. You ever go to the circus as an adult? It's nothing but animals getting beat and drunk clowns.”— Bruce Rasmussen, Roseanne Conner, Roseanne Barr, imdb.com
“I’ve been told that ‘You can’t come to the hospital. You’ll scare people.’ That was really heartbreaking. It’s diminished my income. The damage is done in so many respects. There’s a whole generation that, when they think of a clown, they think of something scary.”— Pricilla Mooseburger Manuel, pressherald.com
“Reality is like the serious white clown. It seems earnest and logical. Circumspect and prudent. But in the final analysis it is reality that looks the fool, the object of derision. Its partner, Chaplin, guileless and childlike, comes out on top. He laughs carelessly without even noticing that his la…”— Sergei Eisenstein, ajc.com
“I mean, Bozo the Clown...does he really need ‘the clown’ in his title, as clown? Bozo, ‘the’ clown? Are we going to confuse him with Bozo the district attorney? Bozo the pope? There's no other Bozo.”— Larry Charles, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“The hardest part about being a clown, it seems to me, would be that you're constantly referred to as a clown. ‘Who was that clown?,’ ‘I'm not working with that clown, did you hire that clown?,’ ‘The guy's a clown!’ How do you even start into being a clown, how do you know that you want to be a clown…”— Larry Charles, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“Do I think you're a clown? No, not if it’s bad to be a clown, if it’s bad to be a clown then you are definitely not a clown. But if it’s good to be a clown then, you know, I would have to rethink the whole thing.”— Larry Charles, Elaine Benes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, imdb.com
“Hey, guys, time to cool the clown hysteria--most of em are good, cheer up the kiddies, make people laugh.”— Stephen King, twitter.com
“Donald Trump is a clown — literally, he could be in the circus. He’s getting huge support from people who are angry at everything. Mostly white males. Working-class, middle-class, poor white males. And their wives and traditional families. They are furious about everything.”— Noam Chomsky, rawstory.com