Ralph Macchio Net Worth

Ralph Macchio's Quotes

• There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it's nice to know that I can span all those different genres.
• 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.
• Guys like [Steven Spielberg] and [Robert Zemeckis] and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied [Alfred Hitchcock] and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
• The truth is, you have a much richer life if you somehow lead one that you can hold together.

Interesting Facts about Ralph Macchio

1. Listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1984" in "John Willis' Screen World", Vol. 36.
2. Graduated from Half Hollow Hills West High School in 1979.
3. When Joel Siegel first did a review for The Karate Kid (1984), he pronounced his name "MA-Key-O" instead of "Ma-chee-o". The latter pronunciation was the way Macchio himself pronounced his name, but the former is the proper Italian pronunciation. Siegel was called in at 4:00 am the day of his review's airing to correct the pronunciation. He later expressed annoyance at being called in at 4:00 am in the morning because Macchio "didn't know how to pronounce his own name.".
4. Daughter Julia Macchio was born in 1992; son Daniel Macchio was born in 1996.
5. Big fan of songwriter/singer Bruce Springsteen.
6. Born in the same Long Island (NY) town as Mariah Carey.
7. Once saved a baby porpoise that was beached on the shores of Malibu, CA. When reporters tried to cover the story, he asked to remain anonymous.
8. In Crossroads (1986), he has a final "cutting-heads" guitar showdown with a demonic rock guitarist, played by real life guitar hero Steve Vai. Both Macchio and Vai were born and raised on Long Island.
9. Was #80 in VH1's 100 Greatest Teen Stars.
10. During Pat Morita's (his former The Karate Kid (1984) co-star) funeral procession, Macchio gave a brief eulogy and ended it as quoted, "Forever, my Sensei" to the mourners.
11. Some moviegoers who sat through the end credits for the Marvel comics features Thor and The Avengers noticed a "thank you" credit for a Ralph Macchio. However, this was not meant for the Karate Kid actor, but rather for a man with the same name who was a Marvel writer during the 1980s.
12. His father has half-Greek and half-Italian ancestry. His mother has Italian ancestry.
13. Acting protégé of Pat Morita.
14. A fan of the hockey team New York Islanders.
15. Wife Phyllis Fierro is a nurse practitioner.
16. On 12/23/2016 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY, at the game between the Buffalo Sabres and the New York Islanders, the Islanders (Macchio's beloved hockey team) honored the actor with "Ralph Macchio Bobblehead Night", which gave the first 10,000 fans arriving at the game a bobblehead figurine of Macchio dressed in an Islanders uniform in the pose of a "crane kick" (besides the "bobblehead" the raised leg was also built to "bobble", or be flexible). His daughter Julia sang the national anthem before the game.