"I entered the seminary at the age of eleven, in 1947 after the war, because they saw at home that I wanted to study. At that time, in peasant families, when a son wanted to study, his parents would say that this boy must become a priest or a solicitor. At the seminary, we performed sacred plays, and since I played dramatic roles, the rector got angry because people laughed when I said my lines. So I realised that my vocation was not to be a priest, but to make people laugh."
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