Circus Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Circus

Circus Quotes & Sayings

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Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler. — Ben Chaplin

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

Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now.
It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now. — Eminem

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Zarathustra's high-wire act is over;
the circus has left town. — Beryl Dov

The tiger and the lion may be more powerful, but the wolf does not perform in the circus. — Unknown

Whatsa mattah allee time talkee talk bear business? Me no savvee bear business. You no like this Gloddam show, you go somewhere else. — Charles G. Finney

I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things. — Georgie Fame

Now you know about it, and you can do whatever you want to it. — Erin Morgenstern

Damn everything but the circus. — Corita Kent

That it's possible to be against the circus, not because you're afraid to die there, but because it's wicked and wrong.
~Aurelia, 152 — Lynne Reid Banks

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown. I didn't want to be an actor, I wanted to join the circus and entertain people. — Eric Stonestreet

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants. — Neil Gaiman

What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG! — Eric Idle

Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus. — Jerry Coleman

I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are. — K.A. Applegate

That's the key to happiness," Abbey declares. "Join the right circus. — Paul Acampora

Just because I don't look like a freak show, it doesn't mean I'm not part of the circus... — Colin Watts

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit. — Kin Hubbard

Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus. — George Bernard Shaw

To the dump kids, it also seemed perfectly logical that they were driven to the circus by a transvestite prostitute. — John Irving

If poetry is a circus, then the Big Tent we're under has to have room for a lot of different freak shows. — Alan DeNiro

All I say is, if you cannot ride two horses you have no right in the circus. — James Maxton

Despair is the constant companion of the clown. — Angela Carter

Not his circus, not his monkeys. — Tracy Ewens

I should have sold you to that traveling circus when you were four. — Tara Sivec

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it. — Erin Morgenstern

I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes. — Ashley Madekwe

Magic is secreand secrets are magic... — Erin Morgenstern

The circus collects the outsiders like a flame tempts moths. — Laura Lam

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away. — Ben Hecht

I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others' backs at a circus. — Gary Reilly

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

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising. — E.W. Howe

We have no need for the past. All we need are the present and the future. - Ciel Phantomhive — Yana Toboso

I'm slowly learning that my happiest, most special moments happen when the circus is at its peak. — Emily Ley

Now the circus is open. Now you may enter. — Erin Morgenstern

Shan't I take that anshient circus tent?" said he, pintin' to my umbreller, "and lock it up in the safe? — Various

It almost contradicts itself," she says after a moment. "It's as if there is love and loss at the same time, together in a kind of beautiful pain. — Eric Morgenstern

I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus. — Jeff Mangum

I know what I'll do. I'll run away. I'll join the circus. I'll juggle cats. I have experience. — Peggy Leon

Q: How is being at a singles bar different from going to the circus? A: At the circus the clowns don't talk. — Various

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me. — Ian McKellen

If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus. — James Maxton

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head. — Steven Wright

The second officer had turned fully to look down at Vincent's saws. "Those are for dissecting dwarves and children," The Saw Man said, gravely. — Jackie Trippier Holt

You no like this Gloddman show, you go somewhere else. — Charles G. Finney

I always wanted to play baseball and join the circus. Now I have both. — Graig Nettles

When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there's always a chance that the dancing bear will win. — Nancy Isenberg

Every time the circus comes to town, I can't help thinking, Somewhere out there, there's clown semen. — Dana Gould

The thing that's interesting about wire walking is that we never get to see it other than looking up. It's like a circus thing. It's a guy on a wire. — Robert Zemeckis

We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way. — Guy Laliberte

The circus doesn't stop. A federal appeals court has postponed the recall election. How stupid are we? Even our recalls get recalled. — Jay Leno

I was one in a million. I wasn't bright enough to realize the circus fat lady is, too — Stephen King

I was perfect for the circus. If she dared me, I'd do it. Love makes you stupid — Bruno Mars

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism. — Werner Herzog

I wanted you to have a place where you felt safe enough to cry if I could not be with you. — Erin Morgenstern

A circus! 100 clowns of injustice have climbed out of the tiny clown car of this court room. — Ellen DeGeneres

As a child I went to a circus. They had a man shot out of a cannon into a net. I became intrigued with what was going on. — Wally Schirra

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. — Erin Morgenstern

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70. — Pharrell Williams

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. H. L. MENCKEN — Frank Luntz

Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day, give him some horns and he can be a Circus Seal act — Josh Stern

The two-headed boy in the circus never had such a headache. — W.C. Fields

It's a circus out there, mama
and your baby's got the sideshow blues. — Todd Snider

He saw that it wasn't just a circus, but an arena, just like everywhere. — Henry Miller

When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love. — Baz Luhrmann

'The Hobbit's a big gig. It's a huge circus that you become a part of. — Martin Freeman

Lord knows, I need a little action tonight or my vagina might just run off and join the circus. — Harper Sloan

Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame. — Orson Welles

You are a circus act all of your own and I cannot help but be your audience. — Cecelia Ahern

I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something. — Robert E. Howard

That's bad luck: three on a midget. From At The Circus — Groucho Marx

Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want! — John Lydon

Newspapers take peoples' tragedies and force the world to experience all of it. — Rebecca McNutt

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles. — Maxim Gorky

Life is a circus ring, with some moments more spectacular than others. — Janusz Korczak

May giant circus elephants shit on your lawn. May bug-eyed gargoyles eat your young. — James Ellroy

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip. — George Orwell

They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic. — Erin Morgenstern

Leap through the Mystery of death as the circus-rider leaps through the papered hoop ... find Life ambling along beneath us on the Other Side. — Sidney Lanier

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

No. Not my circus, not my undead monkeys. — Ilona Andrews

Goddamn everything but the circus — E. E. Cummings

Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today. — Ray Manzarek

For better or worse, I have a lot of vaudeville circus skills that you just can't showcase in Aaron Sorkin's work. — Joshua Malina

Prediction is the best circus act of all. But it is just an act. It's a carny turn. Stop doing it. — Warren Ellis

In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus. — Danny Huston

When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both. — Graig Nettles

For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown. — Denis Lavant

Love has been described as a three-ring circus: First comes the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, and after that the suffering. — Bob Phillips

But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus. — Richard Pryor

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring and suffering. ~ Unknown — Melinda Curtis

Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond. — Tony Dungy

We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns. — Nicolas Cage

We advanced on the enemy with all the stealth of a circus. — Robert Leckie

His tongue swirls against my skin, and I gasp. His voice rough with passion, he rasps, "You're living fire. I burn. — Amanda Bouchet

Tradition can not justify such misery. Surely people can enjoy themselves at a non-animal circus with exciting human acts instead? — Claire McClennan

He looks funny in a suit jacket, like a bear dressed up in costume for the circus. I would never tell him that, though. — Lauren Oliver

In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus? — Akilnathan Logeswaran

She had always enjoyed the carte blanche accorded to mobsters, aristocrats, circus clowns, and lunatics — Simon Doonan