You wouldn’t believe it now but for many celebrities their journey to stardom was full of hardship with stops at snack bars, construction sites and even mortuaries. We introduce 10 celebrities who were willing to take any greasy monkey job at the dawn of their career. They dreamt big and bulldozed their way forward. And have you ever stood in their shoes?
Jennifer Aniston
“Hollywood Cinderella” tried a whole bunch of jobs before she could apply for the Friends TV series audition. Then would-be The Bounty Hunter star had a part job as a delivery girl and did phone sales. In her interview to Parade Aniston revealed she cleaned toilets to get her pocket money.
Hugh Jackman
Wolverine star and 2008’s Sexiest Man Alive recollects he was called Coco and made people laughing for just five bucks as a party clown. Hugh says he enjoyed fooling around and frolicking with kids at parties. He did so for the whole three years and still misses those happy days.
Gwen Stefani
No Doubt star can train anyone on how to scrub floors perfectly. Grammy-wining Gwen Stefani used to handle her mop and bucket at a Dairy Queen outlet. After scrubbing floors her department store attendant job was pure heaven.
Keanu Reeves
In mid-80s, the would-be Neo was completely unaware of his destiny to save the world from Matrix so he took any job that came around. On top of his appearance in commercials for Coca-Cola and Kellogs Cornflakes Keanu Reeves was skilled at trimming trees, was a grocery store attendant, then door attendant and even an ice skate sharpener.
Barack Obama
Ice cream buyers at a Baskin-Robbins outlet in Honolulu back in long-haired `79 couldn’t imagine in their wildest dreams that a smiling attendant was destined to become the 44th President of the United States of America. With hoarded money Barack entered Harvard Law School and he was never seen eating a cone of ice cream even on the hottest day ever since.
Colin Farrell
Believe it or not, one of Hollywood’s bad guys used to teach dancing. It was not for nothing that he got his first role in Falling for a Dancer series. It is impossible not to fall for his Irish accent let alone the way he moves…
Johnny Depp
It is now that “Mad Hatter” is fishing out a pen out his suit pocket to sign autographs. But at the dawn of his career Johnny Depp was over-the-phone salesman selling ballpoint pens. Just imagine what a movie talent’d have been wasted if the pen sales’d done well!
Bruce Willis
Before he could save the world from apocalypses, one of the most masculine actors on the planet was toughing himself up working at the plant.
Whoopi Goldberg
The last thing you can think about looking at this famous laugher is that she worked as a night janitor, embalmer in a morgue and even laid bricks until she was fired.
Russell Crowe
It’s hard to say whom it is easier to deal with, a bull or unhappy customer. Before he was a Gladiator, the actor was serving clients in a restaurant. But it wasn’t until he washed piles of dishes that Russell Crowe could work as a waiter.
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