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You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!
I took a clown class at NYU - that's where I met June Diane Raphael, my writing partner and best friend.
The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.
I had so much joy as a boy: middle child, lots of energy, big emotional life. I was a clown and still am.
It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!
You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.
I'm a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be both smiling.
I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.
By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made.
I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.
I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.
I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty. I've done it all. I've worked as a clown, literally, at children's parties.
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.
These are truly special days we live in - where a clown in a gown can make her very own drag queen revenge-comedy.
I need to have an outlet, and so I go and make up characters and act and sing and dance like a crazy monkey clown.
All my life I've been a show-off. Ever since first grade I was a clown, and even then I tried to entertain everyone.
I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown.
I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy.
A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.
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 loved being my father's audience and watching him in front of the mirror as he talked to himself made up like a clown.
I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.
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.
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.
I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.
I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.
I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.
I have been called a clown in football - but if I don't go onto the field with a laugh and smile, I shouldn't be doing it.
I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person.
Since childhood, I've been a clown. I've always liked being very funny or trying to make people laugh. It's my original self.
It's true I have a side of me that isn't very adult. I can get very emotional about things. I can become crazy, act the clown.
I had ADD as a kid and often acted as the class clown. My teachers used to tell my mom, 'Raphael thinks he's a real comedian.'
As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.
I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with me or at me.
It's been hard to gain acceptance in England without the clown makeup because I wore the costume as part of my act for so long.
The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.
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.
I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Trump has officially changed his name to Ronald because he's such a clown, and in sympathy his toupée is changing its name to Bozo.
I think I was always a class clown growing up and a funny kid. I never really knew how to channel that until I got into high school.
I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.
I'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.
I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.
I was always the class clown, and I think I gravitated toward performing for the attention I didn't always think I was getting at home.
I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.
I was a timid little guy when I was a kid. I used humor as a defense; I became the class clown. But deep inside, I felt real vulnerable.
I used to do stuff at college. I could do voices. I could make some people laugh. I wasn't the class clown, but I knew I had this skill.
I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things.
I've always had a crazy sense of humor. So the ballet probably wouldn't have been enough for me. I had to clown around a little bit more.
I spent most of my days in school being a class clown. I never shut up. By the time I was in middle school, I had myself a personal aide.