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When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.

— Matthew Perry

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.

— Barbara Park

When I was 10 or 11 people started saying there was something special about my voice. But when I was 15 or 16 is when I really thought my hobby could become my career.

— Jessie J

Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

— Tracy Morgan

I was always silly in high school. I used to always get in trouble because I was laughing. I've always thought I was funny but never thought I could use it to make money. In 1996, I decided I was going to use my humor to get on TV to make money.

— Retta

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.

— Tina Fey

I wasn't funny as a kid. I remember enjoying comedians, but I never understood it was a job choice or a profession.

— Elayne Boosler

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think my entire career path was determined for me when I was 6 years old, watching reruns of 'I Love Lucy' on TV and thinking about making people laugh.

— Paul Reubens

I made people laugh as a kid, but that's not how you make a living.

— Bob Newhart

From the age of 4 or 5, I loved to make people laugh.

— David Walton

I was so in love with the idea of making people laugh for a living that I didn't care what I had to do to get there. Or how much money I was going to make when I did get there.

— Ron White