"Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs"

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

"I'm in the retail business, not the circus business"

"The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing"

"A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in"

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

"Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond"

"Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit"

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

"It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant"

"I will always remember this summer day in Paris, when I was to perform a great acrobatic move. I can still see myself stepping on the ring of a packed circus along real performers"