Attention Quote by Ellen DeGeneres

I was the biggest class clown. I loved attention.

— Bazzi

I was a big shot in high school - big into social events and at the dramatic society - and I always had trouble…

— Don Rickles

I made a living out of being a class clown

— Shannon Hoon

At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me…

— David Harewood

I was always the class clown; I made my family laugh, and that was when I was always happiest. I grew up listening to…

— Sarah Silverman

I used to love being the class clown. I loved to make jokes and make people laugh. There was a set of students who…

— Issa Rae

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

— Jermaine Fowler

I took a stand-up comedy class because I'd always wanted to.

— Jeanie Buss

I actually wasn't really the class clown growing up. The class clown was always the mean guy who walked up and was like, 'You're…

— Mike Birbiglia

I was always the class clown, and I think I gravitated toward performing for the attention I didn't always think I was getting at…

— Chrissy Metz

Becoming a performer, comedian - anything other than a teacher, really - seemed very far-fetched. So I kind of split off into this separate…

— Quinta Brunson

I was the class clown in school, and I was also a child actor - not on television, but in the theatre.

— Dean Haglund