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(21 Feb 2018) FROM RAMEN NOODLES TO DEMONSTRATING LEGO, STARS RECALL THEIR DAYS AS STRUGGLING, BROKE ACTORS
Taraji P. Henson says that before she was a bona fide star, she would live off inexpensive meals of ramen noodles, peanut butter and jelly, spaghetti and oatmeal.
The "Empire" star now also admits she was not above swiping snacks from craft services on sets and saving them for her son's lunchbox.
"I was a single mother, so no, I would buy snacks for him to school and my friends would come and I would be like, 'Stay out of the pantry!  Those are for his school lunch.'  And then when I would book jobs, I'm sorry, but all those jobs I booked on UPN and all of that, I used to steal ya'll snacks because my son needed them for his lunchbox," she laughed.
Henson also worked a variety of jobs to make ends meet.  She was a singing and dancing waitress, a receptionist and also worked retail.
Action star Gerard Butler also worked some "interesting" jobs.  
"I trained as a lawyer and I was fired a week before qualifying and then I found myself in London and I joined this agency that would just give me these stupid jobs.  So suddenly I'm walking round shopping centers handing out information for boiler makers and then I'm at the LEGO show demonstrating how these little toy LEGO things work and how you wind them up.  'And you've got to wind them up, like this, and then you let it go.'  And three weeks before, I had been representing the Queen's estate in Edinburgh in Scotland, you know?  And I was like, winding up...  Like, there's stuff like that when you go, 'How did this happen?'"
"Beverly Hills, 90210" star Jason Priestley recalls being a young, broke actor who always found a way to survive.
"I always would run out of money and I'd be living on, you know, 19 cents, 19 cent No Name Ramen noodles, you know.  And, and, you know, I wouldn't have a car; I'd be driving my buddy's car, borrowing his car if I needed to get to – and all of a sudden magically I'd get a job and then I'd have money," said the 48-year-old.
He also had optimism that it would work out.
"I just sort of had faith that, that it would work out for me and because I had because I had a belief and I had conviction, and I had belief in my abilities and I just knew that, that I would, that I would be OK and somehow it worked out for me."
He said he encourages other young people to just take the risk and try like he did.
"If you believe in yourself and you believe in your talent, and you want to go take a shot, you have to go do it.  Otherwise in 10 years, in 20 years, and I don't know how long but one day you're going go look back and you're going to say, 'What if?  Why didn't I?  I should have, maybe I could have' and you never want to be that person."

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