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At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the circus, and I thought that was interesting. In my head, that was what I imagined I wanted to be when I grew up. Then I realized what an actor was, and I've gravitated to it ever since.
- Finn Jones
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John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.
- Terry Gilliam
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We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went.
- Terry Gilliam
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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
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It's always fun catching up with the other players because so many of them were really good mates when I was playing on the main tour. The thing you miss when you give up is that camaraderie that you experienced because, for 35 weeks of the year, it really is a travelling circus.
- Tim Henman
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KISS Psycho Circus is my current favorite. I'm not ashamed to say that I prefer the mindless fun of blasting hordes of creatures to exploration or adventure games.
- Mike Wilson
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Not all circus animals are unhappy.
- Princess Stephanie of Monaco
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I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home.
- Emmett Kelly
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When I first became involved with PETA, it was on an 'issue-by-issue' basis - they interviewed me in my old apartment about animal abuse in the circus as I sat on a leather sofa.
- Steve-O
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It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.
- Samuel West
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When you see the numbers who come to the circus, you understand that we don't get that by abusing animals.
- Princess Stephanie of Monaco
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The circus was born with animals, horses at the start. This is part of our cultural heritage. It's a whole, with clowns and acrobats.
- Princess Stephanie of Monaco
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When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.
- K. A. Applegate
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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
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Forty years ago, the players were like a travelling circus - we went everywhere together and were pretty good friends.
- Rod Laver
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When you go backstage at a Bruce Springsteen show, you don't see a circus.
- Clarence Clemons
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I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.
- Mary Ellen Mark
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At any moment, one company stands in the spotlight of the middle ring in the stock market's never-ending circus. It may not be the biggest corporation in the world, or the most profitable, but somehow it both mirrors and leads the market's broader action.
- Alex Berenson
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When I was younger, I wanted to own a circus and create this bizarre revue that went from town to town. I suppose, in a way, I got my wish because when you're working on a film, you're in a traveling circus.
- Neil Burger
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I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.
- Vincent Cassel
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A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
- Burt Lancaster
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As a kid, the theatre always felt a bit like running away to join the circus.
- Robert Sean Leonard
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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
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If you want to be anonymous, you can go to Soho or Camden, and it's not a problem. There are a lot of Spanish people. If you go to Piccadilly or Oxford Circus, you hear lots of Spanish voices, but I'm not recognised much.
- Juan Mata
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As a kid, I used to be equal parts drawn to and horrified of the circus. They would have these beautiful canvas posters for Lobster Boy, bearded women, and this and that.
- Mitch Glazer
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Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.
- P. T. Barnum
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The circus leaves a sweet memory.
- Fernando Botero
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I don't have a circus around me, and that's a choice. I like to be on Planet Earth as much as possible.
- Josh Groban
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As incredible as television has become, it often feels like a sideshow in what has become a daily three-ring media circus.
- John Landgraf
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You ask people, 'What is the circus?' They'll say, 'Animals, clowns and acrobats!' That's what people want. If you say you don't have animals, they walk away.
- Princess Stephanie of Monaco
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Animals are the traditional circus. It's what people remember from their childhood.
- Princess Stephanie of Monaco
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Circus is the magic you should show your children.
- Princess Stephanie of Monaco
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Improv Olympics, Second City are some of the most tolerant, accepting people. They're like circus folk. They're freaks themselves.
- Matt Walsh
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Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.
- Ray Manzarek
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We're like a travelling circus... We're always on the go.
- Camila Alves
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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
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But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.
- Pat Benatar
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We are like a traveling circus, our family! We sing, we dance, we do football, we do fashion.
- Victoria Beckham
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I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.
- Jeff Mangum
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It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It's sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It's not going to end well.
- Stephan Pastis
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I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.
- Steven Wright
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This circus that's advertised to show and furnish a little amusement for us heathens is owned by a woman, one whose pluck catches my sympathy every time.
- Wild Bill Hickok
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It's a circus life, the movies. It's a lot of travelling, a lot of antisocial hours; there's a lot of it that's about escaping from life.
- Paul Greengrass
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I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.
- Philip Green
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When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.
- Christopher Walken
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Damn everything but the circus.
- Corita Kent
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We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.
- Charles Bukowski
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In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
- Bil Keane
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Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
- George Carlin
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Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
- Ben Hecht
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