Eddie Murphy Did Not Go To Any Acting School

Different people have different reactions to extreme pain and distress. It turns some people into stand-up comedians. That is what it did to Eddie Murphy.
Eddie's parents divorced when he was 3 years old. Immediately afterwards, his mother got hospitalized for tuberculosis. Eddie and his brother were sent to foster care and lived there for over a year. That wasn't such a great experience for a little child, to put it gently.
For young Eddie, watching television became the escape, the runaway from reality.
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Neither did Drew Barrymore. Drew Barrymore's parents separated when she was a babe in her mother's arms. Her mum, a promising but not yet established actress took Drew to the shoots with her. Little Drew got her first acting assignment when she was...
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While Johnny was selling ink pens to irate customers over the phone, his friend Nicolas Cage asked Johnny to meet his agent. Johnny met the agent and auditioned for the role of Glen Lantz for A Nightmare on Elm Street. He got the part.
And that’s how he got into the movies. Johnny Depp never went to any acting school.
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This guy didn't go to some place to learn acting before he leaped into the world of cinema.
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While at school, Brad briefly toyed with the idea of acting in films, but like we all do when we dream up great ideas, he quickly abandoned it after he had derived the maximum amusement from it.
Later...
So, just for the hell of it, he loaded up his truck and with $325 in all, set off on a drive from Missouri to Hollywood chasing the scent of his whim.
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When she told him she hadn't understood his question, he asked again, "You're a model, aren't you?" He gave her his business card and requested that she think it over and that if she decides to become a model, that she ask her parents to give him a call.
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