Words matter. These are the best Ralph Macchio Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My wife and kids maybe beg to differ, but I am generally a good guy.
Just because you have experience driving doesn’t necessarily mean you have experience teaching how to drive.
I still feel that the original ‘Karate Kid’ is the great piece of work that has stood the test of time. It’s a bit of soulful magic.
I’ve come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a great athlete, but I loved it, so making starting second base in the all-star was great for me. I think someone must have been sick and they slotted me in.
There’s little that compares with the thrill of a hit major motion picture experience.
I did an episode of ‘Law & Order: Criminal Intent’ with Jeff Goldblum, which was fun because I’ve known him for years.
Sometimes I wish I was more shrewd.
I wasn’t the guy running out to the Viper Room or comedy clubs until three in the morning. I was the guy running back to watch the Mets win the World Series in 1986.
To me, in life, if you have a sense of humor about it, that’s how you deal with anything.
With ‘The Karate Kid’ especially, there’s been so many references and visual images from that film, you know? Who knew that ‘Wax on, wax off’ would become part of the American lexicon?
People’s behavior is not always changed based on a loss. I remember my dad or my uncle used to say, ‘If that guy’s picking on you, punch him once in the face, and he’ll never come back again.’ I don’t know how true that is.
There is nothing I ever wanted, if I wanted it bad enough, that I didn’t get.
Sometimes I’m crotchety, angry, curmudgeonly – you know, I do have that side. I don’t always show it.
As long as I’m creating, I am happy… whether directing, producing, writing, acting.
When you look at the ‘Roseannes’ and the ‘Will and Graces’ – when those reboots or sequels or whatever you want to call them are well-executed and have a fresh angle that’s relevant, it’s a big, warm comfort hug to the audience.
My father owned some Laundromats, and when I was 10, he had me in there making change and being an attendant. He taught me that on weekends, you had to get up and go to work. That has been a big help in acting.
The truth is, you have a much richer life if you somehow lead one that you can hold together.
Persona-wise, I represent a lot of people’s childhoods.
Movies will always be movies, and you can never replace that feeling of when the lights go down and the image comes up.
I was in ‘The Outsiders,’ which was a good launching pad for me, but ‘The Karate Kid’ sent me into a different stratosphere.
I lead a unique existence as someone who is famous for being young on film, or young in the minds of everyone.
