Powers Boothe Net Worth

Powers Boothe's Quotes

• [accepting his Emmy Award, 1980] This is either the most courageous moment of my career or the stupidest... I also thought long and hard whether or not I would attend, but I came here because this is America and one must do what one believes. I believe in the Academy. I also believe in my fellow actors in their stand.
• Hell, I've played as many guys who get the girl as I have heavies. I've done love scenes with Jessica Lange [Blue Sky (1994)] and Jennifer Lopez [U Turn (1997)], and I won't kid you, they're fun.
• I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky to always be involved with quality actors, quality directors, quality writers.
• [2007, on beginning as an actor] One role leads to another. For the first 10 years [that] I was a professional actor, all I did was Shakespeare. And the show I did in New York that brought me out [to L.A.] was a flat-out comedy. And they never let me do comedy.
• [on playing the U.S. President on 24 (2001)] One of the more interesting things about doing this is I don't have to worry about my wardrobe... because it's the same every day, all day.

Interesting Facts about Powers Boothe

1. He was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity at Southwest Texas State University.
2. In September 1980, in an act of defiance, he showed up at the Emmy Awards ceremony to collect the award he had won for playing Jim Jones. The Screen Actors Guild was in the middle of a strike and members boycotted the ceremony until the strike was settled. He was the only winner in an acting category who showed up. The incident was referenced in the James L. Brooks comedy film I'll Do Anything (1994).
3. Had two children: Parisse Boothe and Preston Boothe.
4. During the 1980 actor's boycott, he was one of the few nominees to attend the Emmy Awards ceremony, and the only winner to accept his award in person.
5. The youngest of three sons of Merrill Vestal Boothe and Emily Kathryn Reeves, his family's roots in the American South went back many generations. The family is generally of British Isles (English) ancestry..
6. His family lived in the American South for many generations, and are generally of British Isles (English) ancestry.
7. 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, Bill Paxton, Sam Elliot, Michael Biehn, Brad Pitt, Girard Swan and Leonardo DiCaprio.
8. He was named after a friend of his father's that was killed in World War II.
9. Received his Master's degree in Fine Arts from Southern Methodist University and went on to become a resident actor at the Oregon Shakespeare Company.
10. He was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in Austin, Texas. [March 2009]
11. His favorite role was in the science fiction horror film Mutant Species (1995).
12. Resided in Los Angeles, California, where he raised racing quarter horses.
13. He was a lifelong Republican.