These Celebrities Empowered Themselves When They Dropped Out Of High School

The Wizardly Dropout

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Don’t let Daniel Radcliffe’s Harry Potter character fool you. He may have been a wiz in the books at Hogwarts, but that wasn’t the case in real life. Radcliffe began taking acting classes while attending West Long schools.

He was already making TV appearances on British television and his schedule started to fill up with acting opportunities, so he decided to quit school. “I was kind of useless. I found the work really, really difficult,” he said.

This next star quit to pursue music, but acting was his true calling.