title: "Memoirs of a Circus Clown": The Reality of the Dream
author:  David Figlioli 
description: Author David Figlioli is a 20 year veteran actor of film, television, theatre and tv commercials. He has been making a living as an actor since 1995 and has been seen in over 50 film and television projects along with well over 100 tv commercials and countless theatrical productions around the U.S. This is David's first foray into writing and he brings a fresh unique perspective to the truth behind what it truly means to be an actor in Hollywood and to live the reality of what it takes to "run away and join the circus". For more information on David Figlioli you can go to his actor website DavidFiglioli.com
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  No one ever asks a clown at the end of his life what he _really_ wanted to be
  when he grew up. It’s fairly obvious. No one gets hijacked into the circus. We
  race to it, the smell of hotdogs leading us in, our fingers aching for the
  sticky pull of taffy, the electric shock of pink cotton on our tongue. Ask a
  lawyer and he’ll say when he was a kid he wanted to be an astronaut. Ask an
  accountant; he’ll say he wanted to be fireman.
  
  
  I am a clown. I have always wanted to be a clown. And I will die a clown if I
  have my way.
  
  
  My name is Merton D. Kamal.
  
  
  The Kamal comes from my father. I never met the man so I have no idea how he
  came by it. Mom got the Merton bit from some monk she used to read who wrote
  something like this