Damn everything but the circus.

- Corita Kent

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

- Emmanuelle Beart

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

- Erica Jong

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

- E. W. Howe

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

- E. B. White

I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.

- Dontrelle Willis

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

I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.

- Dakota Johnson

Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.

- Drew Barrymore

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

- Donald Pleasence

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

- Ashley Madekwe

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.

- Claude Debussy

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

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

- Burt Lancaster

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

- Ben Hecht

I wanted to keep working because work was essentially fantastic - you got to be around people, you got to be in a family, and that family changed from job to job. It was like being in the circus.

- Ben Mendelsohn

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

- Ben Chaplin

Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.

- Billy Corgan

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

- Bil Keane

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

- Al Lewis