I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.
Let me ask you: Who do you prefer, a clown organizing your menu - with all due respect to Mr. McDonald - or a chef? I do believe it's a very simple answer.
I really wasn't a class clown.
'I, Malvolio' is a very, very funny show, a clown show, but there is Beckettian darkness in the character. Some real darkness, some right close to the edge of despair moments.
I would borrow my mom's red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown!
My school was really small, but I was called the Class Clown!
'Poltergeist' was the film that scarred me for life. I saw it at such a young age - 5 or 6 years old - and it has one of the creepiest doll sequences with the clown, and ever since then, I've just been fascinated by dolls.
As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.
A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.
I want to be silly, and that's being authentic just as much as being open and honest. It's authentic to make weird clown horn noises when it strikes you.
I created 'Captain Underpants' when I was in the second grade. I was constantly getting in trouble for being the class clown, so my teacher sent me out into the hallway to punish me. It was there in the hall that I began drawing 'Captain Underpants'. Soon I was making my own comic books about him.
I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
Every role is a potential lover. I ask: Are they someone I want to wake up to in the morning and go to bed with at night? Do they question my assumptions about life? Consume me to distraction? Make my cry, then clown to make me laugh again? If I say yes, then it's all I need.
I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.
It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.
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.
My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family.
Up until the age of 9 or so, I was an incredibly happy, pretty well-adjusted, funny kid who made my parents laugh all the time. I was a bit of a clown, and I was really happy. And then my parents divorced, and I kind of turned into a different person.
Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.
In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.
I was a class clown. My father was a class clown. My son has been a class clown, and it sort of ran in the family.
For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown.
I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.
Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.
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.
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.
I was a class clown since second grade.
At this point, if I were to psychoanalyze myself, I'd have to say I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular person.
I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.
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.
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.
I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.
I'm the youngest of four, and I'm always the clown - making the jokes, wanting attention.
No one knows Anne's better side, and that's why most people can't stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone's had enough of me to last a month.
It's kind of fun to be a clown. I've always played the clown. The clowns come on, get the biggest, juiciest laughs, and then leave.