Star hobbies. Unusual hobbies of famous people
I wonder what celebrities do when they are not in the spotlight?.. It turns out that many of them collect unique collections or do unusual things that, over time, arouse interest and no less than the main activities of the stars. The passion of the stars for their collections sometimes looks like madness, as it actually happens with ordinary people.
Why not? After all, the stars are the same mortals, and they have the same right to a hobby. What distinguishes them is only the fact that they have much more opportunities to realize their passion.
As it turned out, many stars have hobbies. Someone just collects antiques, someone has good guitars, someone is crazy about movies on videocassettes, and someone does not have enough time for such hobbies. It's amazing how they find time to add to their collections. Some meetings and activities are also quite unusual, which, without exaggeration, simply lead to confusion, and they will be discussed below.
Johnny Depp
The actor became famous all over the world not only for his talent for impersonation, but also for his love of collecting.
He collects guitars, Barbie dolls, fancy hats he wears at all public events, drawings of murderous psychopaths, figurines of clowns he is scared to death, collects dried beetles, bats, skeletons and stuffed animals, and this is probably not the whole list of strange hobbies.
And the last celebrity hobby is diving in the pool with sharks, during which one of the sharks bit off his hand. Here, means, the person wanted sharp sensations.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio keeps up with his colleagues and does everything his heart desires. The real passion of the actor is poker for money, where he loses and wins fortunes in an evening.
He gives himself to this gambling hobby both in his free time, and during filming, and even trips with charity events.
Leo also enjoys skydiving from various tall buildings. For unauthorized entry into them, DiCaprio was repeatedly detained by the police.
Sarah Jessica Parker
Performer of the role of Cary Bradshaw in the series "Sex in big city"For many years he has not given up dancing, yoga, karate and cycling.
But the actress has a special love for a very outdated hobby, unlike her fellow stars, knitting, and she mostly knits clothes that she herself then wears.
David Lynch
The famous director of the series "Twin Peaks" not only makes mystical films, but he has enough horror in real life. Since childhood, he was attracted by the collection of dead animals and flies, which he continues to collect until now.
And while studying at the university, he visited the morgue, where his acquaintance worked, to observe the corpses, and at night he painted dead people.
Nicole Kidman
Very aristocratic and restrained Nicole Cadman lacks extreme sports in her life. Therefore, from time to time she jumps from an airplane without a parachute. The rest of the time, the actress writes stories and collects ancient Jewish coins, which she can look at for hours in between filming.
Tom Hanks
The actor has a passion for old typewriters. He even published an article for The New York Times, where he wrote: “the sounds from the “flying” Smith Corona Skywriter are comparable to the muffled shots of James Bond’s Walter, and the half-century-old Royal is comparable to a human voice saying “so-so-so” .
He has in his collection cars with Latin, Russian and even Arabic letters. They say that Tom takes one of the cars with him on every trip. Its collection includes more than 200 exhibits.
Elton John
It is hard not to notice that the singer has a special love for glasses, or rather unusual frames for them. Elton John spends a lot of money on such a hobby. His collection contains such unusual specimens that they confuse the public, but the singer is absolutely not shy about putting them on people.
Penelope Cruz
The Spanish actress surprised the world by admitting that she collects ... hangers. On the this moment she has about 500 pieces in her wardrobe, according to miridei.com.
Angelina Jolie
The most sexy woman planet since the age of 12 has been collecting very unfeminine things - knives. The actress received the first exhibit of her collection from her mother, and now she herself passed on her passion for edged weapons to her eldest son Madox.
Rod Steward
On the third floor in the house of Rod Steward, a whole museum railway. He recreated the Chicago of the 1940s in it, where there are terminals with trains, and parks, entire warehouses and much more.
The singer spends all his free time with trains, plays with them, and even takes some with him on tour.
1. Wolfgang Goethe loved to travel around the neighborhood of Weimer, his hometown, and scatter violet seeds at the same time. These flowers still grow there, and the townspeople call them Goethe's violets.
2. Helena Blavatsky carried a bag with seeds of flowers and herbs with her everywhere, and also scattered them wherever she passed. "I'll leave and they'll stay," she said.
4. Leo Tolstoy himself plowed, harnessed to a plow and sewed shoes.
5. Beaumarchais was a good watchmaker.
6. Leonardo da Vinci was an inventor and an excellent cook.
7. Franklin Roosevelt amassed a huge collection of stamps, one of the largest in the world.
8. Fantasy HG Wells collected tin soldiers.
9. Rembrandt bought a huge amount of luxury items - jewelry, weapons, carpets.
10. Ivan the Terrible loved to ring the bells with his own hands.
11. King Gustav V of Sweden (1858 -1950) was fond of embroidery. The king's hobby is embroidery of church supplies.
12. Queen Margaret of Denmark 11 is a wonderful illustrator. The hobby of King Hussein of Jordan is moving machinery.
13. Prince Rainier of Monaco 111 Grimaldi - creates his own private zoo
14. The world-famous fashion designer Calvin Klein calls his hobby a commitment to gourmet cuisine, in particular Japanese. He argues that for this it is worth acquiring wealth and worldwide fame.
15. Musician Bryan Adams, who has been pleasing his fans with sentimental lyrics and lyrical melodies for many years, in addition to the guitar, often picks up a camera. It turns out that Brian has been doing photography for a long time and even managed to release two collections of his work - Heaven and Made in Canada. Adams loves to shoot colleagues in the stellar workshop - singer Sheryl Crow, model and actress Pamela Anderson, actress Gwyneth Paltrow.
16. British singer Robbie Williams also decided to expand his horizons and at least indirectly join the fine arts: the latest passion of a pop artist is his own Art Gallery, which Robbie Williams intends to fill with the best examples of modern painting and graphics.
17. The king of nightmares and mystical visions, David Lynch is known for his bizarre hobbies. The director likes to design boxes in which nothing can be put. And on one wall in Lynch's house is a "bee board". Various dried insects hang on it, pinned with pins, and under each is a touching nameplate: “John”, “Pete”, etc.
18. Woody Allen relaxes by playing the clarinet.
19. Anthony Hopkins' hobby is the piano.
20. Writer Sergey Lukyanenko has been collecting mice since 1996 - stone, wooden, porcelain, chocolate, soft, crystal, marzipan.
21. Tatyana Ovsienko collects toys
22. Figure skater Irina Slutskaya collects elephant figurines
23. Singer Irina Otieva collects figurines of pigs
24. Singers Oleg Gazmanov and Valery Meladze collect weapons. Meladze specializes in daggers, one of them was even presented to him by the President of Kabardino-Balkaria. Gazmanov's collection consists of sabers and checkers.
25. Actors Alexander Shirvindt and Mikhail Derzhavin are also fond of collecting - smoking pipes and fishing rods, respectively.
26. Composer Vladimir Shainsky collects a collection of inhabitants sea depths
27. Valdis Pelsh has an impressive collection of military helmets, among which there is even a leather German helmet of the 19th century and a dress helmet of an officer of the Napoleonic army.
28. Actress Vera Glagoleva has been collecting mugs for many years.
29. Konstantin Raikin collects perfume.
30. Dmitry Dibrov collects guitars. Collects guitars and musician Yevgeny Khavtan.
31. The leader of the group "Accident" Alexei Kortnev collects beer bottles, the contents of which were drunk personally by him.
32. The leader of another rock group Andrei Makarevich collects bells and musical instruments.
33. The Kristovsky brothers from the Uma2rman group collect beer mugs.
34. Writer Alexandra Marinina collects rare Christmas bells - clay, crystal, porcelain, metal.
35. Dolls are collected by singers Anita Tsoi, Ilze Liepa, Anastasia Volochkova, and Yevgeny Petrosyan collects clown figurines.
36. Vladimir Vinokur loves archery at his leisure, Leonid Yakubovich loves to sit at the helm of an airplane, and Vitas is fond of growing cacti.
37. Popular actor and presenter Mikhail Porechenkov cannot imagine life without motorcycles.
38. Oleg Menshikov's hobby has also become more than just a hobby. He collects watches and even became the face of a well-known watch company.
39. Gianni Versace collected antique pieces of art - mirrors, sofas and other interior delights.
40. famous actor Tom Hanks collects century-old typewriters - he has copies not only with Latin, but also with Russian and Arabic fonts.
41. Statesman Winston Churchill collected soldiers all his life - he had several toy armies, which he led with enthusiasm.
42. Arnold Schwarzenegger built a whole fleet of Hummers and even has a real tank in his collection.
43. Since childhood, Keanu Reeves has been fond of motorcycles - one of his most expensive models is the 1974 Norton Combat Commando 850.
44. Actor Sean Connery's hobby is combat Scottish skirts, kilts.
45. Johnny Depp collects skeletons, stuffed animals and images of evil clowns.
46. Mysterious director David Lynch prefers dead flies.
47. Nicolas Cage also collects insects, but the actor's true passion is comics.
48. Demi Moore collects dolls - her collection includes more than a thousand Barbies and Kens and is valued at several hundred thousand dollars.
49. Dmitry Medvedev is fond of yoga
50. Vladimir Putin black belt in judo
So, the famous glamorous Paris Hilton (American party girl) has a not so glamorous hobby - a spectacular blonde loves to hunt frogs on her own ranches in California and Nevada and on her islands. She catches the unfortunates, collects them in a bucket, and then releases them. She is captivated by the process of fishing.
50-year-old film actor Johnny Depp, who played the hero of "Pirates of the Caribbean", oddly enough, collects famous Barbie dolls, preferring rare dolls with a very limited release. In his collection there are such rare specimens as Barbie-Beyoncé and Barbie-Lindsay Lohan.
The football player of the Spanish football team "Real" Cristiano Ronaldo is passionate about playing bingo, so he hone his English.
The famous Claudia Schiffer is proud of her home collection of dissected butterflies, decorated in the form of paintings. The walls of her house are hung with collectibles.
Oscar winner Tom Hanks ("Forest Gump") proudly shows off his collection of around 200 vintage typewriters. Moreover, some of the nicknames are in working condition. He is so obsessed with his hobby that he once agreed to an unwanted interview after promising to receive a rare 1934 Smith Corona typewriter in return.
But the English active figure in the television and music industry Simon Cowell loves to just hang on a tree in his free time, considering it as a ritual. Simon rounds up his daily morning coffee with old cartoons to keep him in high spirits all day long. Perhaps this is also a ritual.
Black boxer Mike Tyson apparently has a passion for white, he literally raves about the snow-white "birds of the world" - pigeons. He takes care of them in a fatherly way and delights in their superiority over the bears, lions and tigers that previously existed with him.
Singer Taylor Swift collects Christmas balls, and actress Kristen Stewart learning the art of juggling.
Our master of the stage, Iosif Kobzon, is passionate about many hobbies, but in a special place is collecting his biblical compositions-plots in gold and inlay precious stones own design. These are unique works of art by several masters of jewelry. Today the collection includes more than 40 stories.
Sergey Lukyanenko's collection of mice has more than 300 exhibits. In it you can find marzipan and chocolate mice, stone and wooden, crystal and porcelain, fur and fabric.
Parodist Vladimir Vinokur is keen on archery, and Leonid Yakubovich is on airplane flights.
Dmitry Pevtsov and Mikhail Porechenkov love to ride motorcycles. The vocal Vitas himself grows a collection of cacti.
And Nikolai Fomenko received the title of International Master of Sports in car racing a few years ago, this is a vivid example of a professional hobby.
Oleg Menshikov, due to his passion for collecting watches, acquired the status of the face of the famous watch company. Nikolai Baskov is proud not only of his collection of watches, but also of the value of individual items - the 20 most exclusive ones are valued at one and a half million dollars.
Oleg Gazmanov collects sabers and checkers of all times and peoples, and Valery Meladze collects daggers.
TV presenter Valdis Pelsh is very proud of his rare pieces - a 19th century German leather helmet and an officer's helmet of Napoleon's army - in the general collection of helmets.
Tatyana Bulanova collected hippos, and Tatyana Ovsienko is passionate about collecting toys. Elephants are collections of Nadezhda Babkina and figure skater Irina Slutskaya. And Irina Otieva collects figurines of pigs. Singer Lada Dens loves shoes, it has become a hobby. TV presenter Yulianna Shakhova collects several types of accessories, but the collection of sun glasses is our pride.
Beer lover Aleksey Kortnev collects empty beer bottles of beer he personally drank, and Andrei Makarevich has a passion for collecting musical instruments and bells.
The Kristovsky brothers from the Uma2Rman group collect beer mugs, and the singers Anita Tsoi and Anastasia Volochkova collect dolls.
Comedian Yevgeny Petrosyan collects nothing more than figurines and figurines of clowns. And someone prefers jesters - this is the ex-soloist " VIA Gra Nadya Granovskaya.
Ksenia Sobchak is very original in her passion for collecting clothes hangers from all over the world. So one day a curious incident happened - the employees of one of the hotels in Milan demanded that the stolen copy be put in place.
Mikhail Shirvindt is no less original - he collects irons. Dealing with interest in the problem of ironing clothes at all times, he has already collected more than 200 copies.
Stas Mikhailov, the most popular today, considers playing the guitar his favorite and main hobby.
Actor Alexander Domogarov is multifaceted in his hobbies - fencing, equestrian sports, collects edged weapons.
Most successful people know that in life you need to have time not only to eat, sleep and work. Everyone needs to enjoy their free time. The best way to do this is to find yourself a hobby that will even help you become even more successful. For example, if you play musical instruments, you will develop your imagination, the ability to analyze, and also stimulate fine motor skills. List for inspiration interesting hobbies celebrities. You might want to try something that captivates the stars.
Richard Branson playing chess
Branson is widely known for his love of adventure, and you've probably seen pictures of him while sailing or relaxing at sea. At the same time, his favorite hobby- highly intelligent. He thinks chess is Best game in the world. They require a combination of different skills: tactics, planning, courage, risk taking. In addition, during the game you can drink tea and have a nice conversation with another player. Richard admits that he has played chess thousands of times, and on his private island on the beach, he also often plays with his children. A great way to develop a child's mind! 
Jack Dorsey loves hiking
Dorsey manages several social networks. To get things done, he gives each day a theme, which helps him focus on main task without being distracted by extraneous trifles. Dorsey devotes his Saturdays to hiking. Such rest helps him to maintain health on high level required for active business. 
Meryl Streep knitting
The Oscar-winning actress admits she loves knitting. The shawl she had in Doubt was made by herself. She admits that she spends a lot of time on the set knitting and considers this hobby therapeutic, because it allows you to collect your thoughts and think about life. It clears the mind! In fact, many stars love to knit during filming, among the fans of this activity Julia Roberts, Ryan Gosling, Christina Hendricks. It turns out that knitting is not at all a hobby for grandmothers. 
Kate Middleton coloring
Behind last years adult coloring pages have become very popular, Joan Basford's work is among the bestsellers. Catherine's husband, Prince William, admits that even the princess has taken to coloring. Supporters of this hobby claim that this is a great alternative to meditation and mindfulness technologies, which allows you to reduce stress and sort out your own thoughts. If you love coloring, you can not be shy: this hobby is suitable even for royalty. 
Bill Gates plays bridge
Gates has several old-fashioned hobbies, including playing bridge. In addition, he loves tennis and believes that The best way spend time - giving it to children. Seems to be for real successful entrepreneurs cope with work without harm to personal life. 
George Bush painting
The former US president is passionate about drawing. He depicts animals, landscapes and even painted seventy world leaders. Bush began painting when he completed his presidential run in 2009 and spent a month in Florida learning the art from an accomplished artist. He even made a self-portrait! 
Ray Dalio practices meditation
The businessman admits that the practice of meditation has had a huge impact on his life. He began practicing in 1969 when he was still a university student. After he taught meditation to his employees, many Wall Street bankers got carried away with it precisely because of him. In such a busy work schedule, this hobby is quite appropriate, as it helps to maintain mental balance. 
Tom Hanks collects vintage typewriters
The actor and director started collecting typewriters back in 1978, he uses them every day: he loves the sounds, the feel and the consistency of everything that comes out of typing. Everything that you write on a typewriter seems more impressive, the actor believes, because each letter is accompanied by a loud sound. 
Sergey Brin is an adrenaline junkie
In his free time, the Google co-founder likes to challenge himself. He plays hockey, does gymnastics, skydives and flies on the trapeze. These hobbies help him relax and take his mind off the hard, stressful work. 
marissa meyer baking
The Yahoo CEO says she has always loved baking. In her opinion, the point is her love of science, because the best cooks are always a little chemists. She has a practical approach to baking and has compiled whole tables with instructions on how best to bake cupcakes and make icing for them. Marissa is sure that her hobby helps her to do her job better and encourages her to see the world in a different way, because it develops creativity. 
Steve Wozniak plays polo on a Segway
The Apple co-founder loves to play polo while riding his Segway. Yes, such a game really exists! Each team has five players trying to get the rubber ball past the opposing goalkeeper. This unusual hobby is the only thing Steve is ready to postpone things for. 
Tim Gunn is into art
The Project Runway host spends his weekends at museums and stays there until closing. He admits that he loves art very much, he comes to the museum in a suit and examines various objects for a long time. In the process, he is visited by a variety of emotions. There are pictures that simply tear a person off the ground. After the museum, he goes to a cafe for a glass of wine and a few sandwiches, while reading on the Internet about what he saw in the museum. His favorite subject is Ancient Rome. 
Warren Buffett plays the ukulele
According to Forbes, this businessman has been playing the ukulele for decades. He often uses his hobby as an occasion for charity: he has donated instruments to children's clubs and hosted free concerts. 
Angelina Jolie collects guns
This Hollywood actress unique hobby: together with her family, she collects knives. Jolie admitted in an interview that her mother introduced her to this hobby when the actress was still a child. She passed this hobby on to her son Maddox. She says she only gives him blunt knives so he can't cut himself, and besides, they talk a lot about cruelty. In the interview, Jolie demonstrates her knife skills and explains that she is delighted with the story behind the weapon: there is something beautiful about knives. 
Larry Ellison sailing
The CEO of several tech companies loves to swim. He even took part in American yachting competitions. Ellison began learning to sail after moving to California in 1966 when he was twenty-two. At twenty-five he had already bought his first boat several meters long.
This famous engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and investor is best known to us as the founder of SpaceX, Tesla Motors and PayPal. However, among collectors he is famous as the owner a large number items related to James Bond. For example, he owns one of the cars of this movie hero (1977 Lotus Esprit), which in the film easily turned into a submarine.
Warren Buffett - guitarist
Few people know that one of the richest people in the world and the second richest person in the United States is a fan of playing the ukulele. At the same time, he not only owns a collection of these instruments, but also plays music well and does not even hesitate to speak in public.
Bill Gates - Reader
The founder of Microsoft in an interview confessed his love for tennis and playing bridge. But his main passion early years and is still reading. Gates hired a special person who replenishes his library rare books, and in 1994 he even laid out as much as $ 30.8 million for a 15th-century manuscript with a work by Leonardo da Vinci.
Thomas Edison - nutritionist
Virtually no technical achievement of the twentieth century was without inventions and patents of this brilliant man. Edison invented, improved or introduced such things as the telegraph, telephone, movie camera, phonograph. And it was he who suggested even speaking into the phone “hello” at the beginning of the conversation. Well, in his spare time from inventions, he studied various diets and their effect on the human body. In 1930, a year before Edison's death, his wife said in an interview that " proper nutrition is one of his greatest hobbies."
Henry Ford - founder of the Museum of Technology
The legendary American entrepreneur, who made great efforts to develop the automotive industry, was fond of history in general and history industrial revolution in particular. He spent huge amounts of money in order to collect in one place real samples and models of many famous buildings, machines and monuments. In 1929, a museum was opened under open sky, which was called the Henry Ford Museum and was later known as Greenfield Village.
Walt Disney - railroad worker
Walt Disney loved trains. So much so that not a single Disneyland was complete without a toy railroad, and a huge model of a steam locomotive was installed in his office. A copy of the railway was built around the Disney house with a bridge, forks and moving trains, on which the owner was happy to ride his guests.
Nikola Tesla - dovecote
The inventor of radio, robotics and the alternator, the man who, according to contemporaries, "invented the 20th century", was very fond of pigeons. He fed wild pigeons while walking, and when he was sick and could not do it on his own, he hired a special person who fed the birds.
Mark Zuckerberg is a man who changes his hobby every year
Every year I challenge myself to learn something about the world, expand my horizons, teach myself discipline. Last year I studied Chinese. This experience brought me a lot of humility.
Mark Zuckerberg
It may seem to someone that such hobbies only take time, strength and energy of these great people, interfering with their main business. However, this is not at all the case. Even the strongest personalities need periodic unloading and recuperation. The opportunity to relax a little and do some nonsense that has nothing to do with work allows the brain to relieve tension, relax and digest the information received earlier in the background. So even the most frivolous-looking hobbies actually have a very serious purpose.
Do you have any interesting hobby?