Randy Quaid Net Worth

Randy Quaid's Quotes

• When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping center, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.
• I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side they present to the world. Those are good characters.

Interesting Facts about Randy Quaid

1. Older brother of Dennis Quaid. The two have not communicated in over 20 years due to a bad real estate deal in Montecito, California.
2. Upon arriving in Hollywood, he found work as a janitor on Hollywood Boulevard. Within one year, he had been cast in The Last Detail (1973) and later earned Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award nominations.
3. Was directed by wife Evi Quaid in The Debtors (1999).
4. Played the character of Doc Holliday in the movie Purgatory (1999). His brother, Dennis Quaid, played the same character in the movie Wyatt Earp (1994).
5. Randy Quaid went to college at the University of Houston.
6. Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard on October 7, 2003. At a Screen Actors Guild awards show, he revealed that the star was near the site of the Roosevelt Hotel, where the promising actor first arrived off a bus from Houston three decades before.
7. Father of seven frozen embryos with wife Evi Quaid. He has one child, Amanda Quaid, from his marriage to ex-wife Ella Jolly.
8. Quaid's father, Buddy Quaid, told Randy that he is a first cousin, twice removed, of performer Gene Autry. Gene's maternal grandparents, Andrew Clinton Ozment and Margaret Malinda Pierce, were also Quaid's paternal great-great-grandparents. Quaid is further rumored to be a cousin of Richard Harris, but no evidence of this has arisen.
9. Met his wife, Evi Quaid, on the set of Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989) in New York. Evi, 24 at the time, was a production assistant assigned to drive actors to the set and assist the costume designer .
10. Enjoys painting in his spare time.
11. In 1994, he lived in a home in Santa Monica, but when an earthquake destroyed it he flew to New York, checked into the Carlyle Hotel and stayed for close to a year before relocating back to Los Angeles.
12. Was considered for the role of Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975);.
13. Milos Forman cast Quaid as the "King of Spain" in Goya's Ghosts (2006) after seeing his work as Tom Parker in Elvis (2005) with Jonathan Rhys Meyers by phoning him and saying, "You are a great actor. You must be my King or I must repaint Goya".
14. Colored his hair red and rented a fake full length fur coat from Universal for the "Slam Dance" opening night for his film Real Time (2008), the second film to be featured at "Slam Dance" starring Randy Quaid.
15. A full 5 inches taller than his brother, Dennis Quaid.
16. Nominated for an Oscar at the age of 22 for his work with Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail (1973).
17. Married his wife, Evi Quaid, three times, once in Monticeto, California. Once in Hollywood close to his favorite hotel and Walk of Fame star, and once in Toronto, Canada since becoming a refugee claimant. They were married at the San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara, California in 1989. 20 years later in 2009, they were arrested for allegedly defrauding the innkeeper, conspiracy, and burglary after allegedly skipping out on a $10,000 bill at the same hotel after an extended stay there in June 2009. Later it was learned the credit card used was overcharged by $73,000.
18. Cast in The Ice Harvest (2005) when Harold Ramis called him and asked him to do it, just as he did when he asked him to do the first "Vacation" film for him that he also directed.
19. Played two real-life, ceremonial colonels. Tom Parker and Harland Sanders.
20. An arrest warrant was issued for Randy and his wife, Evi Quaid, for failure to show up at a Santa Barbara, California court for an unpaid hotel bill on April 14, 2010. In a plea bargain, he was found not guilty of skipping out of the bill, while Evi was sentenced to a misdemeanor on April 28.