Michael Caine became an actor because all the prettiest girls at his school were in drama class.
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During World War 1, Harry Houdini took 1 year off performing to help sell war bonds and teach american soldiers how to escape from German handcuffs.
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The actor playing The Mountain in Game of Thrones Season 4, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, was only 25 years old at the time of filming.
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Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest and lost.
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As a child, Jim Carrey wore tap shoes to bed just in case his parents needed cheering up in the middle of the night.
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In their early careers, Sylvester Stallone and Jackie Chan both took part in porn.
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Peter Cullen, the voice actor who voices Optimus Prime, also voices Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh.
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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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