Damn everything but the circus.

I think Barnum is at the center of American culture. He's helping to invent what we now think of as pop culture. He invented pretty much our notions of the circus.

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

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.

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.

The whole circus surrounding Ed Burke, I knew immediately from my days as a federal prosecutor, was very, very serious.

I've worked with PETA on freeing elephants from the circus.

I'm the first has-been star singer ever to sing with the circus. I mean, Presley sang with the circus, but that was before he became a star.

When you go backstage at a Bruce Springsteen show, you don't see a circus.

We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.

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

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

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

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

I never doubted my talent. If talent was the circus, then I was its ringmaster and audience, applauding its every move.

There's a coalition of folks here in Georgia who want representation that's focused on local economic development and on accountability and not on the partisan circus in Washington.

I'm actually not a huge circus fan in the traditional sense, but I like a lot of the circus trappings of striped tents and caramel. I lean more towards Cirque du Soleil than Barnum and Bailey.

How can I be happy when my songs are converted into a circus?

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.

When you don't win games everyone tries to stir the pot but this is the circus we're in.