Quotes tagged ‘Circus’

“[the oven bell rings] Mrs. Kersh: I had some cookies I made in the oven before you came. Stay right there. Beverly Marsh: I shouldn’t impose. I’m going to… Mrs. Kersh: No, no, no, no, no, no. I insist.
[she goes to get the cookies; Beverly looks at the photos on the wall] Beverly Marsh: Your photos…”

— Gary Dauberman, Beverly Marsh, Jessica Chastain, imdb.com

“Francisco Scaramanga: When I was a boy, I was brought up in a circus. My only real friend was a huge, magnificent African bull elephant. One day, his handler mistreated him and he went berserk. Bleeding, dying, he came and found me, stood on one leg, his best trick, picked me up and put me on his ba…”

— Richard Maibaum, Tom Mankiewicz, James Bond, Roger Moore, imdb.com

“Just visualize: One elephant climbs up on top of another elephant, until finally, all seventeen elephants have constructed an enormous pyramid of pachyderms!”

— Joe Grant, The Ringmaster (voice), Herman Bing, imdb.com

“And now, I present to you the world's smallest little elephant, who will spring from this springboard in one spring to the top of the pyramid, waving his little flag for the grand climax! Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... Dumbo!”

— Joe Grant, The Ringmaster (voice), Herman Bing, imdb.com

“Dewey: Mom, can I have a story? Lois: Once upon a time, there was a little boy that made his mom so crazy she decided to sell him to a circus.”

— Pang-Ni Landrum, Maggie Bandur, Lois, Jane Kaczmarek, imdb.com

“Dale Cooper: I'll talk to her. Maybe she'll confess. Turn herself in. Albert Rosenfield: Maybe she'll grow wings and join the circus.”

— Tricia Brock, Albert Rosenfield, Miguel Ferrer, imdb.com

“Everything's fun when you're a kid. You ever go to the circus as an adult? It's nothing but animals getting beat and drunk clowns.”

— Bruce Rasmussen, Roseanne Conner, Roseanne Barr, imdb.com

“My father used to take me to the circus. When the elephants came by, he would scream curses at them, blaming them for all the ills of society.”

— Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer, Katya, Elina Löwensohn, imdb.com

“The hardest part about being a clown, it seems to me, would be that you're constantly referred to as a clown. ‘Who was that clown?,’ ‘I'm not working with that clown, did you hire that clown?,’ ‘The guy's a clown!’ How do you even start into being a clown, how do you know that you want to be a clown…”

— Larry Charles, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com

“Come on, this is a great idea. Look at the characters. You've got all these freaks on the show. A woman with a mustache? I mean, who wouldn't tune in to see a woman with a mustache? You've got the tallest man in the world, a guy who's just a head.”

— Larry David, Cosmo Kramer, Michael Richards, imdb.com

“My friend Ricky works at the circus. His job is circumcising elephants. Although he likes it, the wages are low but the tips are huge.”

— Pasta-Leguine, reddit.com