Sondra Locke Net Worth

Sondra Locke's Quotes

• In acting, you're subject to what everyone else does to you: the light someone else puts on you, the pace someone else sets for the scene, how someone else cuts you together, what they throw away and what they keep. Pretty soon you realize, 'This is great, but there must be something a little more.'
• No matter how big actors get, they always somehow think, 'Today is it -- tomorrow everybody's going to wake up and hate me.'
• As an actor, if there's a good role you can take it for the role's sake and not worry about the fact that the whole story doesn't seem to work. The actor won't get the blame for it. You'll do a good job and they'll say, 'The story stinks, but Sondra Locke was good in the part of whatever.' I look on acting as a great vacation now. You work a few weeks, get paid a lot of money and everyone pampers and takes care of you.
• Everyone always wants to type you. With me, I started out as a vulnerable waif and for many years that's all anyone ever wanted me to play.
• I've had some great parts, it's just that you're always looking for something that will take you in a different direction. People only see you in those boxes you've been most recently seen in. That way, they don't have to think or be creative.

Interesting Facts about Sondra Locke

1. Former partner of Clint Eastwood (1975-1989). They never married.
2. Co-starred with Clint Eastwood in six films: Any Which Way You Can (1980), Bronco Billy (1980), Every Which Way but Loose (1978), The Gauntlet (1977), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) and Sudden Impact (1983).
3. Attended Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, on a full scholarship, dropping out after two semesters to work in real estate.
4. In high school she was voted 'Duchess of Studiousness' by her senior class. Grade average was 97.72%. Her ambition then, reads the 1962 edition of SCHS's Aquila yearbook: "Always to take disappointment with a smile".
5. Underwent a double mastectomy due to breast cancer. [September 1990]
6. Locke recently sold her home in L.A. (at a considerable profit), and bought a much larger estate in the Hollywood Hills where she resides with her companion of the last 11 years, Scott Cunneen, a director of surgery at Cedars Sinai Hospital. [February 2001]
7. Alpha Psi Omega alumni.
8. After starring in Willard (1971), about a boy who trains rats, she directed and starred in Ratboy (1986), about a boy who is half rat.
9. Posed for Playboy's "Sex Stars of 1969" issue in a seminude layout that was meant to change her plain-Jane image. Wrote in her memoir that she still gets those racy Frank Bez snapshots in fan mail for her autograph and cringes when she sees them.
10. Was offered to do the main role in Emmy-winning My Sweet Charlie (1970).
11. Appeared in a 1966 UPI wire photo that showed her frolicking in new fallen snow.
12. Owner of now-defunct production company, Caritas Films.
13. Autobiography "The Good, the Bad & the Very Ugly: A Hollywood Journey" released. [1997]
14. Blake Edwards promised her one of the two female leads in City Heat (1984) (ultimately played by Jane Alexander and Madeline Kahn) at a stage in development when Burt Reynolds had signed on but the role of the other leading man was yet to be filled. The actress later asserted that Edwards was merely using her to get to Clint Eastwood who'd already seen the script and turned it down, because once Eastwood changed his mind and came on board, Edwards dropped the idea of casting Ms. Locke.
15. Born the same exact day as Rudy Giuliani, Gladys Knight, Jean-Pierre Léaud and Billy Vera.
16. Lobbied for the role of Pookie Adams in The Sterile Cuckoo (1969) which went to Liza Minnelli.
17. She had Scottish ancestry through her maternal side.
18. For publicity purposes, the spelling of her name was changed from Sandra to Sondra, six years chopped off her age, and her residence in Nashville, where she was employed by WSM-TV, wiped out. [July 1967]
19. Stage credits prior to her film career include "The Boy Friend", "The Crucible", "The Glass Menagerie", "Life with Father", "The Monkey's Paw", "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad", "A Thousand Clowns", "Tiger at the Gates", and "Turn of the Screw".
20. Did summer theater in Washington D.C. and summer stock in the East, but when she tried to become a professional actress in New York everyone told her to catch a bus back home.