Ang Lee. (Photo: Archive)
Jenna Fischer. (Photo: Archive)
Jessica Chastain. (Photo: Archive)
Dustin Hoffman. (Photo: Archive)
Melissa McCarthy. (Photo: Archive)
Jane Lynch. (Photo: Archive)
Judi Dench. (Photo: Archive)
Kathryn Joosten. (Photo: Archive)
Lupita Nyong’o. (Photo: Archive)
Alan Rickman. (Photo: Archive)
Steve Carell. (Photo: Archive)
Joe Manganiello. (Photo: Archive)
Samuel L. Jackson. (Photo: Archive)
Kristen Wiig. (Photo: Archive)
Gene Hackman. (Photo: Archive)
Harrison Ford. (Photo: Archive)
Jeremy Renner. (Photo: Archive)
Bryan Cranston. (Photo: Archive)
Leslie Nielsen. (Photo: Archive)
Christoph Waltz. (Photo: Archive)
Joy Behar. (Photo: Archive)
Billy Bob Thornton. (Photo: Archive)
Jon Hamm. (Photo: Archive)
Regis Philbin. (Photo: Archive)
Patrick Stewart. (Photo: Archive)
James Gandolfini. (Photo: Archive)
Christina Hendricks. (Photo: Archive)
Naomi Watts. (Photo: Archive)
Kathy Bates. (Photo: Archive)
Connie Britton. (Photo: Archive)
Morgan Freeman. (Photo: Archive)
Ken Joeng. (Photo: Archive)
Sylvester Stallone. (Photo: Archive)
Ricky Gervais. (Photo: Archive)
Tina Fey. (Photo: Archive)
The celebrities in this list prove that we should never give up on our dreams. All of them made it big later on in life and we applaud them for keeping at it!