Labeouf: 'Cursing Made Me A Star'

Actor Shia Labeouf credits his filthy mouth with launching his career as a successful actor and comedian.

The Transformers star first hit the showbiz circuit performing a smutty stand-up act at a Los Angeles comedy clubs aged 10 - and won over the crowd because he wasn't afraid to talk dirty.

He tells the New York Post's PageSix column, "It was really disgusting, dirty jokes. I had to win over drunks so I couldn't get up there and talk about 10-year-old stuff like my first kiss. So I got up there and talked about (my first sexual climax)."

"People ate it up because they had never seen a world-weary Richard Pryor 10-year-old with a bowl cut before."