I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest."
Janeane Garofalo
Related I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been consi... JANEANE GAROFALO I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been consi... JANEANE GAROFALO You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer. I DONT KNOW People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way... TOM KENNY firestar: jayfeather what does mallow look like? jayfeather: i dont know, ive never seen any ERIN HUNTER People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way... TOM KENNY You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of... SOFIA VERGARA I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny. CARROT TOP I was the class podiatrist. I never made it to class clown. I wasn't funny enough. I would exami... GILBERT GOTTFRIED Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for ... LISA LESLIE Starting probably with Janeane Garofalo and that era of stand-up ladies who were starting to be more... PAULA PELL I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I ... ALAN ZWEIBEL I dont know that happened. DAVID BERNSTEIN I dont believe in luck. Ive only ever felt lucky finding God and even that was not by chance. MEG NEZAJ I went to dance class as a girl because I didn't like sports, but I never did a dance recital in... JENNIFER GREY I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls, I had to be r... KURT FULLER Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar..................... JIMI HENDRIX I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be. DAVID DOBKIN Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown. R. L. STINE I used to love being the class clown. I loved to make jokes and make people laugh. There was a set o... ISSA RAE Nick was special to me because he was similar to what I was like in school -- he was the class clown... ANDREW BENNETT I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle ... MAYA ANGELOU I remember, as a child, loving it when my mom laughed, but I was definitely not a class clown. BROOKE NEVIN I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where ... CHARLIE TROTTER But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, g... CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicul... DOROTHY PARKER I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule... DOROTHY PARKER ive loved an ive falllen but yet until now ive always gotten back up but ur blow to the heart has su... AMBER FAITH HUN It's funny. When I started on council, I was the youngest person in the room, including the members ... CURT GANTZ I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my t... WILL FERRELL Actually, I was the seventh private explorer but the first Canadian 'space clown.' I never d... GUY LALIBERTE I suppose we'll never know what really happened in that room, though he did tell police, "I did it b... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They ... NAIMA ADEDAPO I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, ... J. COLE How do you tell how a man has been funny? How do you do the sound of his voice? The turn of his face... SHELLEY BERMAN Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting ... F. SIONIL JOSE I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where ... LOGAN HENDERSON What I loved about wrestling was just being foolish, so I studied clown. I studied clown. I studied ... BECKY LYNCH I will forgive, but I will never trust again the person whom I considered a friend but unexpectedly ... BRADLEY B. DALINA I don't know why people feel that I am snooty. I am not a person who has ever given an interview... KAREENA KAPOOR KHAN I was a timid little guy when I was a kid. I used humor as a defense; I became the class clown. But ... MIKE HUCKABEE The Armenian Genocide is such a controversial and very sensitive issue because the Turkish and Armen... KHLOE KARDASHIAN It was hard at first. But I never considered not riding again. I don't really know how to do anythin... JEFF WILLERT When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never... STEVEN WRIGHT Why I Cannot Relate "What do you think of this piece?" Someone will ask About some w... KYLEE CARRIER I disagree with Teddy Kennedy, ... He was the only person to actually cancel an engagement. I think ... GERRY ADAMS Socially, it is funny. People are annoyed because, really who is a clown? ERIC DAVIS I didn't even feel like I was close (to hitting the bag). I don't know how it happened. But that's h... MILTON BRADLEY I could have anticipated what happened in the Miami game, but I couldn't have predicted it would hav... JEFF BOWDEN I don't think of myself as funny. I think of myself as rather grave, actually. And I'm suspi... HUGH LAURIE I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy. RACHEL DRATCH I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I wa... BAS RUTTEN no one knows why we are put on this earth i dont think any of them are true i dont even know why we ... DALLY SALAD I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends. DOMINIC MONAGHAN I dont know if anybody knows how to recover from this, BOB ISRAEL It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've wri... BEBE REXHA My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown. SALLY KELLERMAN Some of the worst things that have happened in my career, like things getting leaked, have actually ... MILEY CYRUS I was certainly not a class clown; I confused and angered a lot of people with my sense of humor. KATHERINE RYAN The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive. JOHN LEGUIZAMO I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all. GREG KINNEAR Dont know why am different from other people, but i surely know that i think of the long run, i dont... OLASOT I took a couple of classes in clowning, but that was more like Lucille Ball kind of slapstick, not R... JUNE DIANE RAPHAEL I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical ev... SMOKEY ROBINSON My paranoia wasn't always right, but just to be on the safe side, I never went to sleep with a clown... MARK HENWICK Why to be in this room? If I was smart... I won't stay in this room and I will move in a room w... DEYTH BANGER I don't know how to act my age because I've never been this old before. ANONYMOUS Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about ... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. They saw him as the class clown. He was tall and scrawny and always playing practical jokes on teach... TODD NELSON I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything ... ANTHONY BURGESS I never thought of myself as like, a funny person. LENA DUNHAM I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattl... ANNA FARIS I was never someone that was attached to any party. You know, I've always been an independent pe... NAGUIB SAWIRIS I've never been naturally fashion conscious. I'm the kind of person who sees a whole outfit ... BROOKE SHIELDS i dont like when people say you know when they are in the middle of telling you something to me it g... DALLY SALAD I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very g... IKE TURNER That?s funny that you say that, because I was trying to think, what's the theme of this record reall... CHANTAL CLARET Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became... BRITT EKLAND David Letterman used to say, 'I wasn't the class clown, but I wrote for him,' and that... MICHAEL KEATON The funny thing is that I had never actually watched TV. DAVE WILLIS I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown, ... To get in good with the teachers. CHRISTINE LAVIN I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting d... CARLY SCHROEDER I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who al... DICK VAN DYKE I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who we... ROB LOWE I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a re... KATHY BATES But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages. CRESSIDA COWELL I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know... COLM TOIBIN As a person, I've been in the business since 1969, and I never remember getting an honest count ... BURNING SPEAR Everybody who's ever been snubbed because you were not chic enough or the right class or the right c... OPRAH WINFREY I didn't realize, actually, at the time how terribly important this documentary was. I didn't know t... SHEILA NEVINS Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of diff... EDDIE MARSAN I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt aw... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The stand up, everything was accidental. I never grew up and was the class clown and had to get the ... ELLEN DEGENERES It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class... GEORGE CARLIN It's funny how sometimes how the public some people think I was born like this. That I maybe I sleep... LOU FERRIGNO I was looking at the puck in the corner and I don't know what happened. It hit my eyeball, so I trie... DARCY TUCKER You drive me insane June. You're the scariest, most clever, bravest person I know, and sometimes I c... MARIE LU I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny. NORA DUNN I could shoot a fly across the room like it ain't nothing. I don't know how I missed the guy. It nev... BRIAN STEVENSON As my wife will attest, I do not shop casually. GEORGE VECSEY
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