Jack Black Net Worth

Jack Black's Quotes

• [on filming the love scene in Shallow Hal (2001)] It was just strictly professional. It was like a doctor or a carpenter plying his trade. I received no pleasure whatsoever... I requested 32 takes for the perfection of the craft.
• Never for a second did I think of myself as the sexiest guy in the world. When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one, my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.
• [on co-starring with Gwyneth Paltrow for the first time in Shallow Hal (2001)] You know, I WAS a little afraid that she would fall head-over-heels in love with me, like she did [when co-starring] with Brad Pitt in Seven (1995).
• I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see. I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.
• I was a little worried about working with kids. I wanted to make sure we didn't approach it tip-toeing around the stuff that would normally be funny, or make it gentle, rock-a-bye-baby bullshit.

Interesting Facts about Jack Black

1. One half of the rock band Tenacious D alongside friend and collaborator Kyle Gass.
2. Filmed a television pilot called Heat Vision and Jack (1999) co-starring Ron Silver, and Christine Taylor, and directed by Ben Stiller. The series was a parody of Knight Rider (1982), as well as other action adventure series, and featured a talking motorcycle voiced by Owen Wilson.
3. Discovered he could act when he played a game of Freeze after a Passover seder.
4. Revealed on an Australian late night variety show that his favorite KISS rock song is "I Love it Loud" (1982) where he began singing parodied lyrics to the first verse.
5. Often competes for the same roles with Philip Seymour Hoffman. On the DVD audio commentary for School of Rock (2003), he jokingly calls Hoffman "my nemesis".
6. Attended Crossroads High School for the Arts and Sciences.
7. Is a member of, what the media refers to as the Frat Pack along with Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Steve Carell and Luke Wilson. The Frat Pack name is a reference to the film Old School (2003), which features Vaughn, Ferrell, and Wilson, due to the wide number of films featuring the seven actors. Black's "Frat Pack" films include The Cable Guy (1996), Envy (2004), and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004).
8. Starred in a management training film "Manager of the Year - Effective Listening" (1987) as a teenager who tells his father that the family car has been stolen.
9. Had his gall bladder removed.
10. Hosted the MTV Movie Awards along with Sarah Michelle Gellar (2002).
11. Sang backup vocals for the songs in Bob Roberts (1992).
12. One of his closest friends is Dave Grohl.
13. Is good friends with Tim Robbins, Cesar Gonzalez and Will Smith.
14. Attended Poseidon School in Santa Monica, California.
15. Despite poking fun at the genre, he is actually a very knowledgeable fan of hard rock/heavy metal music from the 1970s and 1980s. He even appears as part of Tenacious D in Ronnie James Dio's music video for the song "Push".
16. Appears in a parody of the Council of Elrond scene shown during the MTV Movie Awards. The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson later cast him in King Kong (2005).
17. His parents, who were both rocket scientists, divorced when Black was 10. His mother, Judith Love Cohen, worked on the Hubble space telescope.
18. Originally met his wife in high school. They both attended Crossroads, a private school. They met again 15 years after they graduated high school at a friend's birthday party.
19. Wife, Tanya Haden, is a cellist. She is the daughter of jazz great Charlie Haden.
20. His wife is a triplet. Her sisters, Petra Haden and Rachel Haden, also musicians, used to be members of the band "That Dog". Petra was also a former member of the band The Decemberists. Their brother is Josh Haden.