Celebrity First Jobs
Jim Carrey
Today, Jim Carrey commands as
much as $20 million per film. But when Carrey was 15, his father lost his
job. Carrey took after-school jobs as a security guard and janitor at a tire
factory outside Toronto to help his family get by.
His salvation?
Visiting local comedy
... more clubs.
"My mother dressed me in a polyester suit,
and I got booed off the stage, and I didn't go back for two years. But then when
I went back, I was gangbusters," he told Larry King in 2001. Close