Bill Paxton Net Worth

Bill Paxton's Quotes

• It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set...
• . . . but it was movies I had always wanted to be in. I'm into the whole thing, not just performing. I love watching what goes on behind the camera. My heroes are Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd -- complete filmmakers.
• I want people to re-evaluate me. My dream would be to make films like Clint Eastwood did... You have to be a self-starter out here at a certain point. It's important to take the reigns or, otherwise, you can be regaled to obscurity so quickly.
• I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.
• I support the troops. This is tough time right now. I think a lot of people in our industry are afraid to speak out. I had a drink with Sean Penn the other night. He went over to Baghdad in December just to see for himself what was going on. And that guy is as American as anybody I ever met.

Interesting Facts about Bill Paxton

1. Bill had rheumatic fever in the seventh grade. This kept him hospitalized for a month and bedridden for four months. He had to take regular doses of penicillin until he was age 18.
2. As a teen, Bill caddied for golf great Ben Hogan in Fort Worth.
3. Had two children with Louise Newbury: James Paxton (born February 23, 1994) and Lydia (born December 19, 1997).
4. Co-authored and produced the short Scoop (1982), which won an Honorable Mention at the 1983 USA Film Festival.
5. Member of the 1980s rock band Martini Ranch. James Cameron directed a music video for their song "Reach" featuring many Cameron alumni (Kathryn Bigelow, Lance Henriksen, Jenette Goldstein).
6. Son of John Paxton.
7. Met his second wife Louise Newbury on a #13 bus in London.
8. Bill's paternal grandfather was a friend and neighbor to the great American painter Thomas Hart Benton.
9. Learned to speak German to prepare for his role in Pat Benatar's music video "Shadows of the Night" (1982).
10. Attended Arlington Heights High School in Fort Worth, Texas, the same high school as John Denver and Lee Harvey Oswald (who left before he graduated).
11. Had earned the nickname "Wild Bill" among friends and co-stars for his apparently crazed sense of humor and his love for elaborate pranks.
12. Had appeared in five films with Michael Biehn: The Lords of Discipline (1983), De uitroeier (1984), Aliens (1986), Navy Seals (1990) and Tombstone (1993).
13. He was the first choice as Robert Langdon in The Da Vinci Code (2006). He turned down the role because he was already signed for Big Love (2006). Tom Hanks was cast for the film instead. Coincidentally, Hanks served as executive producer on Paxton's series "Big Love" (2006).
14. Inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame during their annual induction gala at Austin Studios in Austin, Texas on March 9, 2007 for his career achievement in the motion picture film industry. The Texas Film Hall of Fame inductees are native-born Texans who have achieved excellence in their film career.
15. For his role on Tombstone (1993), he was trained by renowned Hollywood Gun Coach Thell Reed, who has also trained such actors as: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliot, Leonardo DiCaprio, Girard Swan, Michael Biehn and Ben Foster.
16. He was the only other actor, along with Lance Henriksen, to appear in the Alien, Predator and Terminator film series.
17. He was the only other actor to have been killed by a Terminator, an Alien, a Predator, the Grim Reaper and a serial killer.
18. At eight years old, Paxton was in the crowd waving when President John F. Kennedy emerged from the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth, Texas, on the morning of November 22, 1963. There are pictures at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas where the young Paxton can clearly be seen astride the shoulders of an onlooker.
19. Utters the second line of dialog in De uitroeier (1984) and, along with Brian Thompson and Brad Rearden, were the first hapless humans to confront the Terminator in the 'flesh'. Paxton was the punk with the blue spiky hairdo.
20. Worked as a parking lot attendant.