Michael Caine became an actor because all the prettiest girls at his school were in drama class.
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Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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Keanu Reeves gave $75 million of his matrix sequels paycheck to the film’s SFX team and bought the entire stunt crew Harley Davidson motorcycles.
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When he was 7, Vin Diesel and some friends broke into a New York theater with intentions to vandalize it. Instead of calling the police, the theater’s artistic director handed them scripts and offered them parts in the upcoming show. This became Diesel’s first acting role.
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The Rock accidentally knocked out Michael Clarke Duncan while filming a fight scene for The Scorpion King and had a custom Rolex made as an apology gift, but liked the watch so much that he kept it for himself.
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Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest and lost.
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In their early careers, Sylvester Stallone and Jackie Chan both took part in porn.
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Jackie Chan’s mother was an opium smuggler and his father was a spy.
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