Most of us are n’t yield with a silver spoon in our mouths – even fame . Just like us , they ’ve had to work out their way of life up the job ladder . Here are a dozen examples that prove the older proverb : It ’s not where you start , it ’s where you finish that counts .
1. Mick Jagger
Before he began swagger his stuff on stage , Sir Michael Phillip " Mick " Jagger , lead singer of The Rolling Stones , worked as a porter at the Bexley Mental Hospital while he was a scholarly person at the London School of Economics . He make a thumping 4 pounds , 10 shillings per week ( about $ 7.80 U.S. ) . Perhaps Jagger ’s gig at the infirmary inspired a couple of the Stones ' early hits , such as " nineteenth Nervous Breakdown " and " Mother ’s petty assistant . "
2. Jason Lee
histrion Jason Lee , star ofMy Name is Earlplays a lineament who never work , but in tangible life Lee once worked at Taco Bell . Then , in the tardy 1980s and other nineties , Lee become a competitiveskateboarder , perform pass and other daring evasive action . After appearing in a promotional skateboarding video shot by Spike Jonze , Lee began getting movie offers and left his skateboard career in the detritus .
3. Paula Abdul
During her newbie year at Cal State University , Paula Abdul test out for the Los Angeles Lakers cheerleading squad and was pick out from more than 700 applicants . Her gamey - energy , street - funk - inspired dance routine were an instant hit , and it lease her all of three workweek to become head choreographer . In 1984 , when Abdul ’s routines got the attention of the Jackson family unit , they immediately signed her to choreograph their torment video and her vocation break into overdrive . When Abdul embarked on a vocalizing calling in the later eighties , her debut record album , " Forever Your missy , " run platinum and spawned four number one single , including " Straight Up " and " Cold Hearted . " She has now become pop with a young consultation as a justice on American Idol .
Continue the countdown of the former jobs of fame like David Letterman and Whoopi Goldberg .
4. David Letterman
After graduating from Indiana ’s Ball State University in 1969 , next belated night talk of the town show host David Letterman set ashore a job at Indianapolis television station WLWI ( now phone WTHR ) as a local backbone and weather forecaster . Letterman was eventually allow go for his irregular on - line behaviour , which included efface nation margin from the weather mathematical function and call hail stone " the sizing of canned hams . " Those canned hams finally became pop doorway prizes onThe Late Show with David Letterman .
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5. Dennis Farina
Italian - American thespian Dennis Farina often portrays cops , detectives , ormobstersand is best sleep with for his roles inLaw & Order , Crime Story , andGet Shorty . Some may retrieve he ’s being typecast , but it ’s no wonder that Farina is so well-heeled in his roles – from 1967 to 1985 , he really was a police policeman with the Chicago Police Department . Farina catch the act bug after ferment with director Michael Mann as a law consultant . He started out in community theatre of operations and with bit part on television before landing a starring role inCrime Storyin 1986 .
6. Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood has established himself as a Hollywood icon . From Westerns in the sixties to no - bunk , rebel cop Dirty Harry in the 1970s to a focus on direct since the eighties , Eastwood has created a dead body of work that has garner respect , box office winner , and numerous awards . But before that , Eastwood make his daily bread digging swim pool for the rich and famous of Beverly Hills , while at night he ’d audition for bit parts . He ’d already put in hard time working as a faller , steel mill worker , aircraft factory doer , and gasoline station attendant . Now , he ’s the one lounging around the pool .
7. Whoopi Goldberg
With careers as a bear - up comic , worker , and video talk show legion , Academy Award - winner Whoopi Goldberg has hard institute herself as an free-spoken , liberated , convinced star . But Goldberg was n’t always live in the lap of sumptuousness . Growing up in the tough Chelsea projects in New York City , her first job was as a bricklayer . When that military position peter out out , she took on the role of a garbage accumulator and then a funeral makeup creative person – whatever job she could get to make ends foregather .
8. Ozzy Osbourne
Singer Ozzy Osbourne , behave John Michael Osbourne , is the lead singer of the pioneer heavy metal band Black Sabbath , a popular solo creative person , and a reality telecasting star with his wife Sharon and two children , Kelly and Jack . Growing up in England , Osbourne was once a labourer in a abattoir . This may have influenced some of his far-famed stunts , like bite off the head of a lively peacenik during a meeting with his fresh signed record company and burn the headspring off a squash racket thrown on microscope stage during a concert .
9. Sean Connery
Sean Connery is probably best roll in the hay for limn James Bond seven time , coiffe the saloon very high for those who would follow . He also demonstrate his versatility with movies such asHighlanderandThe Untouchables , for which he acquire an Oscar . But Connery ’s first job was as a milkman in his aboriginal Scotland . After a stint in the Royal Navy , he postulate on legion job in the late forties and early 1950s , including lifesaver , ditch digger , and artist ’s fashion model . In 1953 , he even contend in the Mr. Universe contest , place third in the tall man ’s division .
10. Marlon Brando
Nearly a decade before he star as Stanley Kowalski inA Streetcar Named Desire , Marlon Brando cultivate as a ditch digger after he was eject from military shoal for being " incorrigible . " When he grew tired of manual labor , Brando became an elevator operator in New York City . His last non - acting line before his break into film was as a night watchman .
11. Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey ’s rugged dear feel have won him many lover and seen him cast in a long leaning of romantic comedies and action films . But after fine-tune high schoolhouse in 1988 , he expend a year in Australia as an exchange student . During this fourth dimension , he made some extra cash by shoveling Gallus gallus manure and washing smasher . Returning to the United States in 1990 , McConaughey considered a life history in law but caught the performing hemipterous insect instead .
12. Madonna
Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone splashed onto the medicine scene with an attitude and some tricky pop tunes in the early 1980s . Her " Like a Virgin " record album and subsequent tour took the earthly concern by storm , and she ’s never looked back . But the early years in New York City were problematic for Madonna , and she found herself make for at a routine of low - pay job , include a Erolia minutilla at a Dunkin ' doughnut in Times Square . But , in true Madonna way , she was fired for squirting jelly occupy all over customers !
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS:
Helen Davies , Marjorie Dorfman , Mary Fons , Deborah Hawkins , Martin Hintz , Linnea Lundgren , David Priess , Julia Clark Robinson , Paul Seaburn , Heidi Stevens , and Steve Theunissen
