Michael Caine became an actor because all the prettiest girls at his school were in drama class.
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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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Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest and lost.
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Leonardo DiCaprio was named Leonardo because his pregnant mother was looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting in a museum in Italy when DiCaprio first kicked.
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Heath Ledger asked Christian Bale to actually beat him for the interrogation scene in the Dark Knight.
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Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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Peter Cullen, the voice actor who voices Optimus Prime, also voices Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh.
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Clint Eastwood was in a plane which crashed into the sea. He and the pilot escaped the sinking aircraft and swam 3 miles to safety.
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