If it were the only option, then everyone who didn't go to college would be a failure, right? We know that isn't true, because we've all heard the dropout-to-billionaire stories of tech geniuses like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg.
Ryan Gosling didn't finish high school in Ontario.
“When I first saw 'Rambo,' that movie put a kind of spell on me and I actually thought I WAS Rambo,” said Gosling. “So much so, that one day, I took a bunch of steak knives to school and threw them around at recess time because I thought we were in the movie!”
attended the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in New York but moved to California in 1978, when his parents got divorced. He began studying at the Santa Monica High School but dropped out four years later and moved to New York in order to pursue a career in acting. Robert Downey Jr.
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Why did Jim Carrey drop out of college?
When Carrey was a teenager, his father lost his job. The family moved from Newmarket to a suburb of Toronto. To help make ends meet, Carrey quit school and took a job as a janitor.
Carrey was forced to leave school at the age of 16 to help support his family. The Ace Ventura actor was once a “straight-A student,” but as he revealed on Inside the Actor's Studio, working in a factory made him want to “bash somebody's head in.” He was eventually able to find an outlet for his frustrations in comedy.
Hanks spent two years studying theater at Chabot College before enrolling at Cal State Sacramento, but later dropped out. Instead, he told USA Today, “I got an offer to go off and do the thing I was studying to do.” That offer was to become an intern at the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland.
DiCaprio disliked public school and wanted to audition for acting jobs instead. He dropped out of high school later, eventually earning a general equivalency diploma.
Despite this, it's still unclear whether or not DiCaprio himself adheres to a vegan lifestyle. While he has yet to confirm or deny whether he's vegan, the actor's plant-based investments showcase he's, at the very least, supportive of veganism for the environmental benefits that come with the lifestyle.
DiCaprio's biographer, Lisa Arcella, told Daily Mail, “Leo often takes his mother as his date to awards shows. She loves all the glamour and excitement, and he loves to spoil her. He wants to repay her for all the sacrifices she made when he was growing up.
DiCaprio, 21 years old at the time, was brought to Cameron's attention by casting director Mali Finn. Initially, he did not want the role and refused to read his first romantic scene. Cameron said, "He read it once, then started goofing around, and I could never get him to focus on it again.
Taylor Swift does not have a college degree, but she is a highly intelligent and educated individual. She began her music career at a very young age, and her busy touring schedule made it difficult for her to attend college. However, she has expressed her interest in pursuing higher education in the future.
Fun fact: Beyoncé dropped out of high school at 15 to form Destiny's Child. Her dad homeschooled her. She never went to college, but you have to admit she does have business smarts. She also married a good man in Jay-Z, But still could've made it on her own.
739 out of 2,473 billionaires do not have degrees. That makes the percentage 0.298 or rounded up to 30%. As I said to my son in his senior year of college (when he wanted to drop out with one semester left and used Bill Gates as an example) if you can guarantee me that you will be a billionaire quit.
From his mother, Abraham Lincoln was a third degree cousin to the famous actor Tom Hanks. Hanks narrated the docudrama film Killing Lincoln, released in 2011, about the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln's father was a descendant of English immigrants who arrived in Massachusetts in 1637.
Whoopi Goldberg in her youth struggled with learning; labeled “dumb” and “lazy” she became a high school dropout at the age of 17. With low self-esteem, she became involved in drugs. Yet remarkably she overcame all this to have the most amazing career as an actress, comedian, television host and author.
Drew was emancipated when she was only 14 years old and didn't earn her high school diploma. Drew invited three Drew Barrymore Show viewers to create “Drew & Ru's Back-to-School Crew”. The first adult learner earning her GED credential alongside Drew is Anissa a 50-year-old from Florida.
She dropped out of high school at the age of 17. It wasn't until much later she got into comedy and eventually created the hit TV show "Roseanne." Drew Barrymore, actress, producer, and director.
Growing up, Cruise aspired to become a priest. But after partaking in acting classes and performances throughout his childhood, he changed his career path, left high school (a Franciscan seminary) after a year, and moved to NYC to pursue acting full time.
Originally known as Shawn Carter, Jay-Z never graduated from high school. That didn't stop the multi-Grammy Award-winning hip-hop artist from becoming a successful entrepreneur.
After a few years Downey went to live with his father and began attending Santa Monica High School, but dropped out in 1982. At the age of 17 he moved back to New York to pursue an acting career full-time.
