John Wayne Gacy Quotes

American serial killer (1942–1994)

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John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender known as the Killer Clown who assaulted and murdered at least 33 young men and boys. Gacy regularly performed at children's hospitals and charitable events as "Pogo the Clown" or "Patches the Clown", personas he had devised.

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Also Known As: Pogo the Clown • The Killer Clown

Alternative Names: Gacy • J. W. Gacy • John Wayne Jr. Gacy • John Gacy • John Wayne Gacy Jr.

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I would definitely not be homosexual. I have nothing against what they do and I don't deny that I've engaged in sex with males but that I'm bisexual.

You know, clowns can get away with murder

There's a lot of things great about life. But I think tomorrow is the most important thing. Comes in to us at midnight very clean, ya know. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

The idea that I'm a homosexual thrill killer, that I stroll down the streets and stalk young boys and slaughter them... Hell, if you could see my schedule, my work schedule, you knew damn well that I was never out there.

I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business.

Whether its [David] Berkowitz, whether its [Ted] Bundy, whether its... Wayne Williams down in Atlanta..., or Charlie Manson—I don't comment about other cases for the simple fact is that I wasn't there.

Taking my life will not compensate for the loss of the others. The State is murdering me.

All the police are going to get me for is running a funeral parlor without a license.

When they paint the image that I was this monster who picked up these alter boys along the street and swatted them like flies I said "this is ludicrous".

We had a pretty good time together, when she wasn't trying to kill me!

Girls are no fun to kill. Guys are more interesting to kill.

The dead won't bother you, it's the living you got to to worry about

That one mother [of victim] that gets on television all the time, who thinks I should get 33 injections, I think she ought to take 33 valiums and go lay down.

The picture business has grown up since I got into it 15 years ago, has acquired a dignity that is beyond reproach. Hollywood is, today, a quiet town compared to other places I have been and can, moreover, be pretty proud of itself, having pushed more charities, given more time to selling war bonds and more talent to entertaining servicemen than any other town in any other part of the country.

If they want to be convinced or [are] brainwashed into what they believe, then fine, then go ahead and kill me. But 'vengeance is mine saith the Lord' because you would have executed someone who didn't commit the crime.