[PHOTOS] 13 Homeless People Who Became Rich And Famous

It's hard to imagine that the late Apple mogul once slept on the floor of a friend's dorm. He also returned bottles to make money for food and trekked seven miles across town once a week to get a free meal at the Hare Krishna temple.

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Film director John Woo was born in Guanzhou, Canton in 1946. In 1952--two years after moving to Hong Kong--his home burned to the ground and he and his family were homeless. At one point, he considered becoming a priest. Lucky for viewers, the movies Beckoned.

Carrey said it was during these tough financial times growing up when he developed a sense of humor. Yahoo! reported that the comedian dropped out of high school and lived in a VW bus with his family parked in different places throughout Canada. They eventually moved into a tent on his older sister's lawn and parked the van in the driveway.

During his childhood and teenaged years, Oher was living on the streets while his crack-addicted mother lived in public housing, reported NPR. He was eventually taken in to live with a wealthy family, played college football at the University of Mississippi and drafted into the NFL in 2009 for the Baltimore Ravens. His inspirational story was turned into Michael Lewis's 2006 book "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game" and the movie "The Blind Side."

When she first moved to Chicago to become an actress, Berry ran out of money and her mother decided the best thing would not be to send her daughter money. During these struggling times, the actress admits to staying in a homeless shelter. In an interview with Star Pulse, the actress said: "It taught me how to take care of myself and that I could live through any situation, even if it meant going to a shelter for a small stint, or living within my means, which were meager. I became a person who knows that I will always make my own way."

He's now got several critically-acclaimed movies on his resume, but Hollyscoop reported that the "007" actor used to sleep on park benches as a struggling actor.

Before becoming the multi-platinum singer Jewel, she lived on the streets after losing her job. In an interview with Adam on Showbizspy, the singer said: “I ended up homeless because my boss propositioned me and when I wouldn’t sleep with him he didn’t give me my paycheck,” she said. “I got kicked out of where I was living and my rent was due that next day. “I thought ‘Well, I’ll live in my car for a minute… get back on my feet,’ but I had bad kidneys and I never could hold down another job because I got sick so often. I didn’t have insurance and ended up almost dying in the parking lot of an emergency room because they wouldn’t admit me because I didn’t have insurance. “I ended up homeless for about a month and I went back to singing.”

While he was in his early 20s, Frank O'Dea was panhandling and living on the streets, according to John Demont at The Chronicle Herald. That was, until he and his business partner opened Second Cup, which is the largest specialty coffee chain in Canada today with 360 locations.

Fitzgerald was abused by her stepfather when her mother died at a young age, according to PoemHunter.com. She worked with the mafia for some time before the police put her in a school for girls. Fitzgerald ran away from there and was homeless until debuting at the Apollo Theater in 1934. Her voice quickly won her fame and throughout her career, she won 13 Grammy Awards and received medals from both President Reagan and George H. W. Bush. She died in 1996, but her face appeared on a United States postal stamp in 2007.

After the early death of his father, Chaplin's mother was put in a mental hospital and the young boy and his brother had to try to make a living by themselves, according to his Web site. As both his parents were in show business, Chaplin and his brother decided to follow suit. Today, he's known as one of the greatest actors during the silent film era.

At a young age, Houdini knew he wanted to be a magician and ran away from home by hopping a freight car, according to Appleton Public Library. He ended up in Missouri. A few years later, he moved to New York City with his father, but they were so poor Houdini continued to panhandle on the streets. He began his professional career at 17.