Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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Michael Jackson tried to buy Marvel Comics in the early 1990s so that he could play Spider-Man in his own movie.
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Freddie Mercury held parties with midgets carrying around trays of cocaine.
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Until he turned 12, Robert Pattinson's elder sisters dressed him up as a girl and introduced him as "Claudia" to strangers.
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Kobe Bryant was named after a steak.
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Lindsay Lohan was approached to star in The Hangover, but she declined because the screenplay "had no potential".
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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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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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