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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Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf in Lord of the Rings because he didn't understand the script.
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Jackie Chan’s mother was an opium smuggler and his father was a spy.
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Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest and lost.
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Michael Caine became an actor because all the prettiest girls at his school were in drama class.
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