11Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino dropped out of high school at the age of 14 and got a job as an usher at an adult movie theater after lying about his age.
12Bruce Lee
At the age of 18, Bruce Lee was sent to live with his sister in the US because he had beaten up the son of an organized crime family. Lee’s parents feared retaliation.
13Nikki Reed
Nikki Reed moved out of her mother's house and began living on her own at the age of 14. After the success of her movie "Thirteen", Reed returned to high school but dropped out again after a year because of "mothers who were sneaking into the school at lunchtime to confront and harass her about the film."
14Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr's first exposure to percussion happened when he contracted tuberculosis at the age of 13 and was admitted into a sanatorium for 2 years. The staff encouraged him to join the hospital band where he used a makeshift mallet to strike against the cabinets next to his bed.
15Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett made enough money selling Coke Bottles and magazines door to door to buy a 40-acre farm at the age of 14.
16Roseanne Barr
Roseanne Barr was hit by a car at the age of 16, and the hood ornament went into her brain and through her skull. Her behavior changed so radically that she was institutionalized for eight months at Utah State Hospital, where she had a baby, which she gave up for adoption.
17Gandhi
Gandhi married at the age of 13. Recalling his wedding, he once said: "We didn't know much about marriage, for us it meant only wearing new clothes, eating sweets and playing with relatives." He first became a father at the age of 16 in spite of his wife spending most of her time at her mother’s.
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18Delores Moran
When actress Delores Moran was 15 years-old she delivered a coffee to a man and never saw or heard from him again. He never mentioned her to anyone but, when he died over 20 years later, he had left her $300,000.
19Jamie Hyneman
Mythbusters' Jamie Hyneman ran away from home at the age of 14 and hitchhiked all over America. Since then, he has worked as a certified divemaster, wilderness survival expert, boat captain, linguist, pet shop owner, animal wrangler, machinist, concrete inspector, chef, and television show host.
20Jackie Coogan
When child actor Jackie Coogan turned 18, he found out that all his money had been spent by his mother who argued that every dollar a child makes before the age of 21 belongs to his parents. Coogan's law was then passed to protect child actors.
