20 Celebs That Work Harder Than People Know
![20 Celebs That Work Harder Than People Know](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/3/3/700733.jpg?v=2)
We all tend to picture celebrities as lazy grifters, lying around their fancy mansions and raining huge wads of cash on their designer pets. And yeah, it's easy to make fun of Adam Sandler and his buddies meeting up in whatever tropical locale to squeeze out a safe family comedy every other year—although, if you ask us, that does not at all sound like a bad life. But that's just not the case for everyone.
As it turns out, some celebrities actually work really, really hard. Obviously, it takes a ton of effort to get in shape to portray a believable boxer, and physical transformations get a lot of attention, but this goes beyond that. It extends to answering fan mail, perfecting musical instruments, and running businesses.
And we're not talking about their mundane, pre-fame lives. These are celebrities who continue(d) to expend enormous amounts of physical and/or mental energy on their craft, well after they succeeded.
![To film Creed and Black Panther, actor Michael B. Jordan had to stick to a very strict diet, work out two to three times a day, box and train six days](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/0/1/700401.jpg?v=2)
![EMPOWER AT 71 YEARS OLD, ARNOLD CHWARZENEGGER IS STILL GOING HARD AND HITTING THE GYM EVERY DAY.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/9/7/700397.jpg?v=2)
![TO prepare for her role in Black Swan, Natalie Portman practiced for at least five hours a day. She sometimes started at 5 a.m. because she had other](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/9/6/700396.jpg?v=2)
![WHEN BOXER MIKE TYSON WAS AT HIS PEAK, HE DID O00 SIT-UPS A DAY. He'd work out six days a week for 8 to 10 hours a day, and his daily routine also inc](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/9/9/700399.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKEDCO COM MR. ROGERS RESPONDED TO EVERY FAN LETTER HE RECEIVED FOR HIS MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD SHOW. MOST OF THE CHILDREN WHO WROTE TO HIM OFT](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/7/5/700375.jpg?v=2)
![Tony Hawk spent ten years working on mastering the landing on a 900. While he could pull off the two and a half spins since 1989, he couldn't properly](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/9/2/700392.jpg?v=2)
![Even at the height of his fame, James FranCO does a little bit of everything. In 2013, he acted in a total of 16 movies and shows and directed 5 mov](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/9/0/700390.jpg?v=2)
![Abba's studio sessions were SO long, their sound engineer says he'd almost pass out from hunger. They never left a song unfinished, and worked on ever](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/8/5/700385.jpg?v=2)
![Soon after publishing her first book, which was an immediate SUCcess, Martha Stewart spent 18-20 hours a day working on more books. Decades later, the](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/8/7/700387.jpg?v=2)
![Tyler Perry, CEO of Tyler Perry Studios, usually works 18 hours a day for three to four consecutive months before taking a break and doing it all over](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/8/6/700386.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED COM Magician David Copperfieid performs his live Las Vegas show 15 times a week: twice a day with a third on Saturdays. He has been doing his](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/6/8/700368.jpg?v=2)
![At 15, Miley Cyrus was already super disciplined. While shooting Hannah Montana: The Movie, she'd board a plane after work on Friday, do two concerts](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/8/1/700381.jpg?v=2)
![Paris Hilton travels for business over 250 days a year. She writes and produces music, does DJ gigs (she's the world's highest-paid female DJ), and ma](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/7/7/700377.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED olly PParton COM Has written over 3000 songs Has made 46 solo studio albums in the last 52 years Has written two autobiographies, two children](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/7/2/700372.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKEDcO Since 2008, Eric Roberts has acted in over 300 projects, including movies, TV shows, and music videos. JOBNLY WUTAE ETIN Ddtu ERICROBERTS ER](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/7/1/700371.jpg?v=2)
![Ryan Seacrest juggles multiple radio shows and appearances every day, with barely a bathroom break between them. His schedule is sO packed that he has](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/8/9/700389.jpg?v=2)
![Gordon Ramsay's day: 16 hours of work. 5 hours of personal time. 3 hours of sleep. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/6/2/700362.jpg?v=2)
![Paul McCartney is well past 70, but he is still touring. In fact, he has been touring almost every year since the breakup of The Beatles. PAUL MCCARTK](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/9/4/700394.jpg?v=2)
![As the first black woman to headline Coachella, Beyonce gave her all to the outstanding two-hour performance- which made headlines as Beychella. She](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/8/8/700388.jpg?v=2)
![Judy JJUDGE Sheindlin TU films a whopping 260 episodes of her #1 rated court show every season. Sheindlin's show is in its 23rd season and has been re](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/5/7/700757.jpg?v=1)