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From the time I was 18, I knew I wanted to be a comedian, but I was just scared to try it. And first I thought, 'Well, I should go to college and get a degree.' That didn't pan out.

— Martha Kelly

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

You have to understand how bad I wanted to be a comedian, how much I loved doing it. I still can't believe I get to do this for a living and have people come up and want to see me.

— Bill Burr

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.

— Jerry Seinfeld

When I first started out in the industry, I was 12 or whatever, and I wanted to be on something so bad, and I didn't know what I was going to be on. At the time, I was in school, and I was working on drama and theatrical stuff, so I never thought that I'd end up going to comedy.

— Zendaya

I always wanted to be a comedian, but I wasn't sure how you do that.

— Ron Shock

I wanted to be a comedian.

— Kelly Slater

I wasn't planning on being a comedian; I just liked to laugh. Somebody said I should do it and that's how I started.

— Jamie Kennedy

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

— Adam Sandler

Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

— Albert Brooks

✗Opposing Perspectives

It never dawned on me that I had the option of becoming a comedian. I come from a little dirt street town in northwest Texas, and they really don't talk about the arts there much on career day.

— Ron White

I didn't really want to be a comedian.

— Allan Carr