Once upon a time, the Oscar victor worked astatine an El Pollo Loco successful Hollywood. "Man's gotta eat," Pitt said on Ellen in 2019, adding that helium felt "no shame" astir his days dressed arsenic a chickenhearted for the accelerated nutrient chain.

His different gigs to wage the rent included moving furnishings and chauffeuring strippers around. The second admittedly got "really, truly depressing," Pitt said during a 2007 Oscars roundtable, truthful helium discontinue aft lone 2 months, "even though it was truly bully wealth I needed astatine the time." But, making 1 past drive, helium met a pistillate who was in an acting people helium decided to cheque retired and the remainder is history. "Strippers changed my life," helium concluded.

The Thor prima said connected The Tonight Show that helium got his archetypal occupation astatine 14 "cleaning bosom pumps" astatine a pharmacy—"and repairing them arsenic well, occasionally."

"They would rent them out, the machines would travel back," helium explained, "and I would person a toothbrush, a small spray and wipe..."

But Hemsworth wasn't 1 to caregiver a grudge.

As a teen she worked astatine a market store adjacent her father's barber store successful Nashville and "hated it with a passion," she recalled during a 1992 sojourn filmed for The Oprah Winfrey Show. 

Not slightest due to the fact that she "wasn't allowed to speech to the customers," she said, adding, "Can you ideate that for me?"

But Winfrey diligently showed up for work without fail. "The lone happening that got maine retired of the store," she said, "was the information that I got myself a occupation successful vigor broadcasting."

While sharpening her acting chops astatine the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater, the Oscar victor supported herself bartending.

"I learned a batch of accents arsenic a bartender," Bullock told the Associated Press. "A batch of girls came successful looking for affluent husbands. I learned to imitate them."

As a teenager, the histrion spun tunes astatine an Australian nightclub nether the sanction "Russ Le Roq" to prime up women.

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The multitalented prima of The Deer Hunter and Hairspray was already a kid actor—"I was successful sketches with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin," Walken told The Guardian. "Never got paid a cent!"—when helium spent a summertime arsenic a trainee lion tamer successful the circus erstwhile helium was 16.

"Who's going to crook that down?" helium said. 

"I would travel into the cage and question my whip," Walken recalled, and the lion, Sheba, would "lazily get up and beryllium similar a canine and possibly springiness a small roar. I similar cats a lot. I've ever liked cats. They're large company."

The Scottish actor studied instrumentality for 5 years and spent 2 moving astatine an Edinburgh firm—where, helium said on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in 2018, he became "the archetypal trainee lawyer ever successful the past of the Scottish ineligible strategy to beryllium fired earlier helium qualified." Getting sacked really took "a batch of work," helium added, sharing that helium racked up 32 days of being OOTO successful his archetypal 2 years.

"You find yourself abruptly moving astatine a instrumentality firm," Butler explained, "and you travel that done and you think, 'Okay, I tin spot myself present successful status age, having done thing that— successful truth—I don't attraction about. I person nary involvement successful this.'"

The Hannah Montana star moonlighted arsenic a location cleaner with Sparkles Cleaning Service earlier landing her life-changing Disney Channel role.

"I had 1 mean occupation and I really liked it," Cyrus said on Tyra in 2008, noting, "I tin cleanable toilet bowls."

The "Applause" vocalist had an after-school occupation waitressing astatine at diner connected New York's Upper West Side. She utilized the other currency to bargain a Gucci purse to acceptable successful with her classmates astatine her all-girls backstage school.

"I was truthful excited due to the fact that each the girls astatine Sacred Heart ever had their fancy purses, and I ever had whatever," she told New York. "My ma and dada were not buying maine a $600 purse."

The creator calved Stefani Germanotta put those skills backmost to use when she played bartender and served food astatine her dad's then-new edifice Art Bird successful 2018.

Even earlier the comedian earned minimum wage busing tables astatine a Red Lobster successful Queens, N.Y., he was a insubstantial transportation adjunct for the New York Daily News, moving alongside his dada Julius.

"I loaded trucks astatine the Brooklyn works implicit connected Pacific St.," Rock told the publication successful 2014. "I person existent fond memories of moving not conscionable with my father, but with aged cats loading trucks."

As for the Red Lobster, helium shared successful a stand-up routine, "I utilized to scrape shrimp into the garbage tin and past load up the dishwasher. That was my existent job. I ne'er got a raise, I ne'er got a promotion. They kept maine successful the backmost due to the fact that I had truly f--ked-up teeth and they didn't privation radical to deliberation that shrimp f--cked up your teeth."

The No Doubt vocalist was erstwhile conscionable a miss moving astatine a Dairy Queen.

"When I started there, I acceptable successful my outfit," Stefani said of her precocious school-era occupation during a conception connected The Voice in 2014. "When I ended there, I did not acceptable successful my outfit." But she could illustration the goods each time and not summation an ounce astatine her adjacent job, moving the constitution antagonistic astatine a section store.

In an anecdote seemingly ripped from an occurrence of It's Always Sunny successful Philadelphia, DeVito shared connected a 2022 occurrence of the The Always Sunny podcast that helium dabbled successful posthumous hairdressing for funerals.

After a lawsuit passed away, her household asked if helium would bash her hair, the Taxi star explained, after which helium styled respective much corpses. 

"I would spell to the morgue and they're there, they're dead, they're done up by the mortician," helium recalled. "I would instrumentality their hairsbreadth and usage the adust mounting lotion and curl the hair, acceptable the hair, instrumentality it retired and fluff it up a little."