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Ryan Reynolds has been acting since he was a teenager, but he struggled to talk to girls. "I remember, it took me a while to learn that you could actually talk to girls. I remember during elementary school, I used to 'accidentally fall' on [girls] during volleyball practice. And just a few years later, that's illegal. That's straight up inappropriate," recalled the actor.

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Winona Ryder -

The actress was beaten up by bullies in the bathroom when she was in junior high. Years later, after she became successful, Ryder ran into one of the girls, who asked her for an autograph.

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“'Do you remember me? I went to Kenilworth. Remember how, in seventh grade, you beat up that kid?' and she said, 'Kind of,' and I said, 'That was me. Go [ ] yourself!'"

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Jennifer Garner -

Garner was more into music than acting as a teenager. She played sax in the marching band back when she was a student at John Adams Junior High in Charleston, West Virginia.

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John Stamos -

The actor described himself as "the dorky kid" in high school. "I was into magic and theme parks. I was very innocent. When a lot of kids my age were going out drinking on Friday and Saturday nights, I was at Disneyland, going on the rides and listening to the bands," said Stamos.

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Seth Rogen -

The actor did stand up comedy throughout high school and even managed to write a script. Rogen eventually dropped out of high school and dedicated his time to work on a TV show.

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Seth Rogen -

"I probably worked harder than most people who were just doing high school stuff, honestly," said the actor.

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Rashida Jones -

The actress had everything going for her as a teenager. She even described herself as "like a teacher's pet."

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Rashida Jones -

"I was social, I was overachieving, I was a cheerleader, I was in the math club, I was in the National Honor Society. I was in every club," she said.

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Harrison Ford -

The actor might have been "kind of short and geeky," but girls liked him. Ford did struggle to find his niche though. "I wasn't an athlete, I wasn't a student leader, I wasn't anything. I was a late bloomer, I think," he said.

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Mindy Kaling -

Mindy Kaling revealed that she really wanted to be popular in high school, though unfortunately she never really achieved her goal.

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And she really did try to stand out from the crowd! "There's photos from our high school musicals, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume," recalled the actress. Actually, maybe that's the opposite of standing out...

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Ben Affleck -

Ben Affleck did okay in high school, until his buddy Matt Damon left. "So I did really well my first two years in high school and then when Matt left, I would cut class and… get in all kinds of trouble."

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When he started getting paid for his acting jobs, Affleck's mother would put his earnings in a college trust fund. But then the actor would withdraw the money and spend "$200 a week on pizza, beer and video games."

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Jennifer Grey -

Grey was still a high school student when she started partying at places such as Studio 54. "There was lots of drugs and drinking. All the time. I had a boyfriend, we were out at clubs at night," she recalled.

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Jennifer Grey -

"Everyone around me was very successful. That was a lot of pressure. I saw everything. That's why high school was so frigging impossible. Like, it was so boring. I was hanging out at [Andy Warhol's] The Factory during the day and 54 at night," added the 'Dirty Dancing' (1987) star.

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Lena Dunham -

Dunham told Jimmy Kimmel that she skipped her high school reunion because she wanted to avoid  "past incarnations" of herself. When describing what her former classmates might say about her successful career, the 'Girls' star said: "They're like, 'Oh she's the person who wore a tube top as a skirt for four years. She should not have been allowed to go to college.'"

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Gwyneth Paltrow -

The actress "got real into the alcohol" as a teenager. "I remember I once had a party -- my parents went out of town -- and I had a party. I got so drunk at this party and I was like, 'I'm gonna get caught.' I woke up and I cleaned the house top to bottom. I got busted because one of my friends had gone into my dad's shower and drank a bunch of beers and left them in the shower," she recalled.

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Drew Barrymore -

Drew Barrymore started acting at a very young age and by the time she was a teenager, the actress had a lot of contact with drugs and alcohol. After spending over a year in a mental institution, Barrymore went to live on her own. At age 14.

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"I had no idea how to run an apartment at 14. There was fungus growing everywhere, it was a disaster. It was in a dangerous neighborhood and I was so scared to sleep," confessed Barrymore.

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Will Ferrell -

Back in high school, the actor was more into sports and politics than comedy. "I ran in my senior year in high school for senior-class council, gave an arousing speech, easily won my council seat, and then I don't think I showed up for any of the council meetings," Ferrell recalled.

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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson -

Before becoming a successful wrestler and actor, The Rock had a few problems with the law as a teenager. So much so that by 17 he had been arrested “eight or nine times.”

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"I was getting in trouble; I was doing a lot of things I shouldn't have been doing, getting arrested. That started happening when I was 13 years old. And, you know, I could've easily been one of these kids in lockup and in jail. I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents. It wasn't until I got older that I realized the importance of that consistent love at home, and that's something you realize that a lot of these kids don't have," he said.

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Halle Berry -

Despite being a cheerleader and the editor of the school newspaper, the actress didn't have an easy time, growing up as a mixed-race teenager. “[We] were in an all-white school with all-white kids, like 3 out of 2500 students to attend a school,” recalled Berry.

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"Because my mother was white and my father was [B]lack… we got called Oreos and names, and kids just didn’t understand, so we were different. We were the brunt of a lot of jokes. So, I think my need to please and my desire to achieve was because I was constantly trying to prove that I was as good as the other white students. I felt very 'less than,' and I thought, 'If I can beat them at everything, then I can be as good as them,'" she added.

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Chad Michael Murray -

The actor said that he was a poor kid attending a rich kids' school, which made his experience a bit harder than if he had attended a regular school.

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Angelina Jolie -

The actress was a bit of a rebel during her teenage years. "I was the punk outsider nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out."

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Chad Michael Murray -

"You know, everyone else has the coolest clothes and the greatest cars. They would get a beautiful new Lexus for their birthday, and I was driving a 1979 Cougar," he shared.

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Jake Gyllenhaal -

The actor was "kind of a nerd" back in his high school days. And despite playing sports, Gyllenhaal was still made fun of because he also liked singing and performing. And, of course, it didn't help that he "had really thick glasses."

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