„Damn everything but the circus!… The average ‘painter’ ‘sculptor’ ‘poet’ ‘composer’ ‘playwright’ is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the back of a galloping horse, make people laugh with a clown’s mouth, orchestrate twenty lions.“

— E.E. Cummings

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„I don’t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.“
— Sophia Loren
„I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they'd still say I'm a dark personality.“
— Tim Burton
„No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable.“
— Terry Pratchett