Vincent Gallo Net Worth

Vincent Gallo's Quotes

• I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings. And I did it out of spite.
• I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere. Crippity crappity creepies.
• I'm the happiest the saddest guy in the world can be.
• There's nothing self-gratifying about knowing you've played a performance where people may easily dislike the character and associate it with you. There's nothing fun about having people suspicious about why you're making work. I'm clearly not networking or making a bid for popularity. I'm following another motivation, and it's not as a provocateur. It's because I'm blinded, like an idiot, by wanting to preserve and express an insight that I have, or an aesthetic that I believe in. I forget that people react to me personally as the representative of that. Did you see a credit for hair and makeup? How can I be a narcissist? I've never even had hair and makeup done for me on a film. I don't even know what I look like as I'm filming. - on being called a narcissist.
• Early in elementary school I had a very small moment where I had a different face - a little nose, straight, blond hair. I had a lot of response, from older women and little girls. But at some point when I transformed into a less [attractive] person, I decided to push away my feelings, to protect myself in order to avoid rejection.

Interesting Facts about Vincent Gallo

1. Known for his multiple talents (filmmaker, actor, writer, musician, audio engineer, motorcycle racer), as well for his very conceptual and outspoken views and his radical, funny and original way of stating those views. A totally original one-of-a-kind person.
2. Announced engagement to New York writer, Bethany Ritz. [April 1999]
3. Dropped out of Sweet Home Central Schools, New York. [1978]
4. He writes for a magazine called Sound Practices.
5. Has over 7500 videotapes, laser discs, DVDs, and film prints.
6. Called off engagement to writer Bethany Ritz. [April 2000]
7. Is a big music enthusiast. Gallo owns over 30,000 vinyl albums and has the largest collection of vintage Hi Fi and audio gear in the USA.
8. Was in an experimental noise band called Gray with New York artist Jean Michel Basquiat in the early 1980s. They played at all the most popular punk rock/new wave clubs in the city, including Max's Kansas City, CBGB's, and one (now famous) night at the Mudd Club. They broke up soon after and Basquiat became famous and several years after that Gallo would also become famous.
9. Childhood idol: Chris Squire, bass player of Yes.
10. Released an album (titled "When") on the Warp label in 2001. He composed, performed and produced all the music on the record.
11. Co-founded the NYC Breakers.
12. Son of Genevieve Gallo and Vincenzo Vito Gallo.
13. Was a hip-hop breakdancer in the early '80s as evidenced in the DVD "Graffiti Rock".
14. Was engaged to Italian actress Asia Argento in 1998.
15. Divides his time between Los Angeles and NYC.
16. During his late teens he fled to Europe alone and ended up spending a year traveling around France, Spain, Great Britain, Portugal, Sweden, Russia, Denmark and Italy.
17. The Italian rock band, Timoria, named the song, "Vincent Gallo Blues", after him. Cat Power (aka Chan Marshall) of Cat Power named the song, "Mr. Gallo", after him.
18. Very good friend of Johnny Ramone, Rick Rubin, PJ Harvey, John Frusciante, Lukas Haas, Val Kilmer and Anna Sui.
19. Was originally set to play Tony Childress/Jesus in Abel Ferrara's Mary (2005).
20. Working on second directorial movie, The Brown Bunny (2003). Lives in NYC and L.A. [March 2002]