Not true. Most of them attend Performing Arts schools early in life, which cost money or they have to be chosen. Then as they get out, Acting classes cost money. even the cheap ones are expensive. Even before the first acting gig that pays money. Rarely are they eating outta garbage cans and sleeping in bus terminals before they make it big.
Only person I think that ever did it like that was Richard Pryor. I may be wrong. but not many more.
oh yeah...and they don't generally belong to the radical religious right so don't like self-satisfied people who think they can impose their morality on everyone else.
just surmise, of course.
But they go to church EVERY Sunday, Thursday and sometimes Saturday without fail depending on when Revival starts and ends. So they may go to church 7 days a week.
So spare me the overly religiousness. Liberal Democrats got that department locked down.
some were, no doubt, privileged, but many privilged people feel they have to give something back. same reason someone like mitt's dad went into politics... he wanted to actually help his workers. offhand i know that jim carey lived in a car, barbra streisand grew up in brooklyn, poor, went to erasmus high school, springsteen (not hollywood, but activist) grew up with a factory worker father who went from job to job,
this is something i found with a quick google
Celebrity rags to riches stories | Celebrities who were poor
harvey weinstein grew up in a housing project in brooklyn
that was just my first few minutes of looking.