Circus Quotes - Page 4

It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about how the animals are happy and well cared for are lies. Don't be swayed by them. The money behind these shows is huge; there is nothing good about them.

I treat him [Donald Trump] as an entertainer. I laugh it off. It's like going to the circus and seeing the acrobats and the dancing bears. He's willing to say things that are patently false.

My mother passed at the end of the Circus tour. After that I really needed to take some time and just chill out and get my head together.

All the world's a stage. P.T. Barnum: It becomes a circus. But circuses or street pageants or parades have always been useful in a society.They've always been useful as a way of critiquing power. The carnivalesque has always been useful as a way of the powerful being mocked in a public space.

I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.

The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.

That's bad luck: three on a midget. From "At The Circus

But you built me dreams instead.

Don't go to the circus.

I hate clowns and I would never do anything getting near a clown, I can't go to the circus.

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.

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

The vector equilibrium is the zero point for happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty theater and empty circus and empty universe ready to accommodate any act and any audience.

The days are usually filled with nonsense and every now and again somebody flies by the circus to party on your dime.

My class is not a three ring circus.

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

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

When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself reflected in all forms and all formlessness.

I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.

She turns her head, Bailey catches her eye, and she smiles at him. Not in the way that one smiles at a random member of the audience when one is in the middle of performing circus tricks with unusually talented kittens but in the way that one smiles when one recognizes someone they have not seen in some time.

Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.

The American political machinery is awesome to behold in its scale and expense and waste and madness. It's the greatest circus on Earth I suppose.

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