Sam Rockwell Net Worth

Sam Rockwell's Quotes

• Sarita (Sarita Choudhury) was the one that got away. She was amazing, really amazing. I loved Sarita. She was my pal.
• [on his role in Galaxy Quest (1999)]: That part is kind of an homage to Bill Paxton in Aliens (1986). I definitely stole some moves from my buddy [actor] Steve Zahn and Bill Murray's lounge singer character from Saturday Night Live (1975) is in there somewhere. Plus a little Michael Keaton in Night Shift (1982) and definitely some Richard Pryor. I get a lot from Richard Pryor actually. How agile he is, vulnerable.
• I really believe that people like Bill Murray or John Belushi are just as great and just as valid as Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. And I don't think you can say One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) is a better movie than National Lampoon's Animal House (1978); they're different genres. I think they're both examples of great craftsmanship.
• I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.
• [Recalling a period he went through when he was 18]: I watched Raging Bull (1980) like 50 times. I wanted to be Italian. For a year I was Italian; that's all I did. I could do all that New York street stuff to the point where I would get feedback from my auditions, "He's too New York, he's too urban" and I was from San Francisco, really.

Interesting Facts about Sam Rockwell

1. Told Carson Daly in a talk-show appearance that he dropped out of G.I. Jane (1997) because he didn't want to get cold filming the night time SCUBA scenes.
2. Filmed his scenes for Jarhead (2005) in one day. His scenes were later deleted.
3. To memorize lines, he says he dictates them into a tape recorder in a monotone, so he won't get used to any inflection before he's had a chance to consider which speech pattern would be appropriate for the character.
4. Had a minor appearance in Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) but his role was removed from the final cut. The scene was the one of the "lover's lane" of sorts, when the Terenzi brothers drive up in their ice cream truck.
5. Close friends with actor Justin Long and Jonathan Togo.
6. Is an only child of actor Pete Rockwell and Penny Hess.
7. Parents separated when he was 5 years old.
8. Improvised most of his lines in Made (2001).
9. Friends with Laurel Holloman. Cousin of Aaron Rockwell.
10. Boyfriend of Leslie Bibb. Ex-boyfriend of Sarita Choudhury.
11. Has English, German, Irish, and distant Dutch, ancestry.
12. Attended high school in San Francisco with Margaret Cho and Aisha Tyler.
13. Friends with (but not related to) director Alexandre Rockwell and has appeared in four of his films: In the Soup (1992), Louis & Frank (1998), Somebody to Love (1994) and 13 Moons (2002).
14. As of 2019, has been in 4 films that were Oscar nominated for Best Picture: The Green Mile (1999), Frost/Nixon (2008), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), Vice (2018), and Jojo Rabbit (2019).
15. His maternal grandmother, Betty J. (Moore) Davis (1917-2007), was a drama teacher. She had acted in plays, lived in The Gestalt Fool theatre commune in San Francisco, and was an adjunct lecturer of Speech Communication at LaGuardia Community.
16. Is one of 13 actors to win the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and SAG Award for the same performance. The others in chronological order are: Geoffrey Rush for Shine (1996), Jamie Foxx for Ray (2004), Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote (2005), Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland (2006), Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men (2007), Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood (2007) and Lincoln (2012), Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight (2008), Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds (2009), Christopher Plummer for Beginners (2010), J.K. Simmons for Whiplash (2014), Leonardo DiCaprio for The Revenant (2015), and Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour (2017).
17. Has based his portrayal in Galaxy Quest (1999) on Bill Paxton's performance in James Cameron's classic Aliens (1986). In particular, his hysterical fear of being killed, and his mental collapse upon seeing a motion detector that shows their enemy closing in on them.
18. Nominated for the 2019 Golden Globe Award in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture category for his role as George W. Bush in Vice (2018), but lost to Mahershala Ali for Green Book (2018).
19. Nominated for a 2019 Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor category for his role as George W. Bush in Vice (2018) but lost to Mahershala Ali for Green Book (2018).
20. In a long-term relationship with Leslie Bibb since 2007.