10 Actors Even More Impressive When You Know The Truth

If you assumed that Arnold Schwarzenegger made his first million dollars from acting, you'd be dead wrong. And no, he didn't make it from his phenomenally successful bodybuilding career either.

Because Arnie's rags-to-riches life story - basically serving as the embodiment of the American Dream - isn't already impressive enough, he was also actually a self-made millionaire by the age of 25.

During the early 1970s, years before he became a Hollywood star, Schwarzenegger took the money he made from bodybuilding and invested it in real estate. 

Due to a combination of smart investments and luck - with Arnie himself calling the '70s a "magic decade" for property development - the land value of Schwarzenegger's buildings quickly skyrocketed, and he became a millionaire before he knew it.

This windfall gave him the financial safety net necessary to pursue an acting career in Hollywood - and we all know how that turned out.