8. Jim Carrey
This 53-year-old has had a slew of box office hits helping him amass a $150-million fortune. ButCarrey was poor – dirt poor, growing up. So much so, his entire family took janitorial jobs and lived out of a Volkswagen camper. “My father was a musician who got a ‘regular job’ to support his children,” he says of his past. “When he lost his job that’s when everything fell apart. We went from ‘lower middle class’ to ‘poor’. We were living out of a van. I quit school at age 15 to begin working to help support my family as a janitor. I’d have a baseball bat on my janitor cart because I was so angry I just wanted to beat the heck out of it.”
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