Tom Sizemore Net Worth

Tom Sizemore's Quotes

• "Strangling that girl was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. Number one, it was her first movie. Two, she was really nice. And three, there she was in Winslow, Arizona - the middle of nowhere - with me and Oliver Stone, and she had to get raped and murdered." About his role in Natural Born Killers (1994).
• I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now. Hell, I'm blessed to be in any position, you know? There are so many guys who had good lives, great lives, and blew it....I think there are some guys who think they don't deserve to have good lives. They feel they don't deserve their good fortune, so they throw it away. One of my good friends was Chris Farley. Chris blew it. He blew the whole enchilada.
• "When he hired me, Oliver [Oliver Stone] said, 'I'm making a table. I have four legs already - Robert Downey Jr., Juliette Lewis, Tommy Lee Jones and Woody Harrelson. And I'm going to have a fifth leg on my table. And if that leg is wobbly, my table is a very fucked-up table, and things fall off of it. You're not going to be a wobbly leg, are ya?' And I said, "No. I won't, I won't, I won't fuck up your table." - On getting the part in Natural Born Killers (1994).
• I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old. I saw some movies with Montgomery Clift and James Dean, and I read biographies about them - then Marlon Brando - and I got it in my head that I wanted to be an actor. The first scene I did in an acting class was from "In the Boom Boom Room", by David Rabe. I played "Big Al". It was a very violent and emotional scene, and I liked that - I realized I had it in me.
• Temptation is impossible for me to resist...Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.

Interesting Facts about Tom Sizemore

1. Arrested in Los Angeles, after his wife, Maeve Quinlan, called police claiming she'd been physically injured by Tom during an argument at their apartment. [January 1997]
2. According to a 2001 interview with The Calgary Sun, he credits Robert De Niro with turning his life around during the filming of Witness to the Mob (1998). De Niro showed up on his doorstep with Tom's mother and told him they were there to drive him to jail or rehab. He chose rehab.
3. Formerly engaged to Heidi Fleiss.
4. His brother, Aaron Sizemore, is a writer and lives in Detroit.
5. His younger brother is Paul Sizemore
6. He has English, German, Scottish, French, and Welsh, ancestry; he has also said that his maternal grandfather was of African-American or Native American (Cherokee or Creek) descent.
7. Is training in Jiu Jitsu and weightlifting to stay in shape as of 2011.
8. Attended Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and graduated in theater (acting).
9. Had his nose accidentally broken by Juliette Lewis during the filming of the prison cell fight scene in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers (1994).
10. Has played characters in seven movies who have died in shootouts: True Romance (1993), Enemy of the State (1998), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Heat (1995), Natural Born Killers (1994), Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) and Dreamcatcher (2003). If counting voice work, the number goes up to eight!: He did the voice of Sonny Forelli in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002), who is killed in a gang shootout.
11. As a struggling young actor in New York, Sizemore worked for three years as a waiter in the World Trade Center.
12. Auditioned six times for the part of Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs (1992).
13. Gained 44 lbs. to portray John Gotti in Witness to the Mob (1998) by gorging on ice cream, pizza, pasta with cream sauce, meatball sandwiches and drinking weight gainer shakes.
14. In February 2005, he failed a court-ordered drug test after he was caught trying to use a prosthetic penis to fake the results, the second time he has been caught trying this.
15. Was in attendance at Chris Penn's funeral
16. Has twin sons Jayden and Jagger born in July of 2005 with ex-girlfriend Janelle McIntire.
17. Claims to have spent $11 million on lawyers and legal fees fighting previous drug and domestic violence charges.
18. Is the lead singer for the Hollywood rock band Day 8, formed in 2002. The members are Rod Casho, Michael Taylor, Lester Mendoza, and Tyrone Tomke. They have recorded a 4 song EP.
19. Spent time doing research at Folsom Prison, a maximum security facility near Sacramento, California to gather insider insight into the criminal psychology and felonious crews like the fictional one his character belongs to in Heat.
20. Tom is the godfather of Michael Madsen's youngest child, Hudson.