15 celebrities who worked at McDonald's

According to Forbes, Leno said he learned how to operate a business while working at McDonald's. The restaurant is known for filling executive ranks with people who started in lower positions at the company, a practice Leno adopted for his talk show.

According to Forbes, the actress said she enjoyed her time working at a McDonald's in South Carolina. While there, she felt it was "a great environment to work in, with lots of camaraderie and teamwork."

"Being a fry girl for McDonald's started me on my professional path! It taught me responsibility," she said on Twitter in 2015.

"I worked as a McDonald's crew person and there is so much more to working at McDonald's than people know," she said in press release. "The action, the fun, the people, the sense of accomplishment — it truly was my first big break!"

The "Freaks and Geeks" and "Pineapple Express" star got a job at McDonald's to help support himself while he studied acting early in his career.

"All I know is that when I needed McDonald's, McDonald's was there for me. When no one else was," Franco said in an article he wrote for The Washington Post. "Someone asked me if I was too good to work at McDonald's. Because I was following my acting dream despite all the pressure not to, I was definitely not too good to work at McDonald's. I went to the nearest Mickey D's and was hired the same day."

"I worked at the local McDonald's for three years," McAdams told the New York Times. "I'm not sure why they kept me: I am something of a daydreamer and a dawdler, so they would only let me be the 'friendly voice' that greeted you when you entered the restaurant. I was slow — I would be organizing the sweet-and-sour packets in the customer's takeout bag while the line snaked out the door."

"At a certain point they just realized that I was no help," Williams said on "Late Night with Seth Meyers." "I was only good at eating the chicken nuggets."

The funny thing is, Williams would actually become an important figure in the chain's history — he co-wrote the Justin Timberlake song "I'm Lovin' It," which became the basis of the iconic slogan and jingle.

According to IMDb, Stone manned the counters at the restaurant early in her career. While working at McDonald's, she worked her way into modeling in TV commercials and print ads.

In a tweet, Miranda said, "My first job was working the cash register and deliveries for McDonald's. It was worth it for this song, years later."

"It was important to my family that I make my own money. I was a drive-thru girl at McDonald's," she told Food & Wine. "I had a Janet Jackson microphone — I had power."

"I worked at McDonald's for several years as a teenager after school while singing in bars at night," Twain told Us Weekly.

"My first job was McDonald's — terrible!" he told Us Weekly.

"The worst job I ever had was in McDonald's in Kentish Town," Seal told The Guardian. "I was 16, and they gave me a brown uniform that was two sizes too small. I stayed for two weeks, until I got my first paycheck, then I was outta there."

"Someone brandished a gun at me when I worked in McDonald's," D'Arcy told Metro. "I was behind the till, and someone pointed a gun at my face. He'd come in looking for someone else but that guy wasn't working that night. He came in, pointed the gun at me and ran away."

"If you don't count paperboy, the time I was hired to play Santa's helper in a department store or the countless backyard puppet/magic/ventriloquist shows I did... My 1st real job WAS at McDonald's in Annandale Virginia when I was 16," Hamill wrote on Twitter.

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