My favorite Lea Michele story was that she has this anecdote about how she totaled her car right before her audition to Glee and she walked into the audition with blood and glass in her hair and everyone was like, oh my god, are you okay, are you sure you want to audition?!?!?!? and she said, no, I need to audition, and she channeled her character in the audition and persevered and then got the part.
And none of it was true. Her audition was completely normal, and everyone at Fox and 20th knew it and consistently complained about her telling that anecdote again.