26Mickey Rourke
Actor Mickey Rourke attributed his comeback to his dogs and credited them during his Golden Globe acceptance speech in 2009. He said, “sometimes when a man's alone, that’s all you got is your dog, and they’ve meant the world to me.”
27. In the early 90's, actor Ving Rhames (aka Marcellus Wallace) met a homeless man who turned out to be his older brother who had been lost to his family since serving in Vietnam.
28. Fred Mertz does not appear in two episodes of "I Love Lucy" due to the actor William Frawley's contract, which stated that he did not have to work if the NY Yankees were playing in The World Series.
29. Actor John Hurt holds the record by dying in over 40 different movies including Alien, Spaceballs, Elephant Man, Hellboy, and V for Vendetta.
30. Actor Clint Walker was pierced through the heart with a ski pole. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead, but a doctor detected faint signs of life and rushed Walker to surgery, where his damaged heart was repaired. Within two months Walker was again working.
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31Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey was originally slated to play the president in Independence Day. Studio executives insisted the part be rewritten for Bill Pullman because they felt Spacey was incapable of starring in blockbusters. He won his first academy award 10 months later.
32. Steve Carell never watched more than 10 minutes of the original Office, for fear of copying Gervais' character.
33. James Franco took up a late-night job at McDonald's a while back in order to support himself and take acting lessons. While working there, he practiced accents on customers and stopped being a vegetarian.
34. Colin Farrell was a suspect for attempted murder and was acquitted due to a journal entry from his friend stating the two were doing ecstasy across town.
35. While Kevin Bacon was at first no fan of the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game created over the course of his career, he eventually grew to appreciate it, founding SixDegrees.org, a social networking site dedicating to linking people and charities together.
