William Zabka Net Worth

William Zabka's Quotes

• My training in martial arts was kind of a crash course in how to look like a black belt. I know the moves of a black belt - my kicks, and my stretches, and my punches and all that.
• Prior to Het uur van de waarheid (1984), I did commercials - Kool-Aid, Pepsi, milk - and I had always been cast as the all-American nice guy.
• Back when I was maybe 19, guys would go, "I can kick your butt!" So I had a few showdowns. To my advantage, I learned martial arts, and what you really learn is not to fight.
• Sometimes you become a character, and sometimes the character becomes you.
• Strangely, when I was a kid, my first acting job, at 5 years old, was a performance of "The Three Little Pigs". They cast me as the Big Bad Wolf.

Interesting Facts about William Zabka

1. He was not at all experienced in martial arts prior to the filming of Het uur van de waarheid (1984). He was actually an accomplished wrestler. However, in the years since, he has earned a black belt in Tang Soo Do.
2. His paternal grandfather was Czech, while his paternal grandmother was born in Nebraska, to Czech parents. His mother is of German ancestry.
3. His parents are: Stanley William Zabka (Stan Zabka), a director/writer/composer whose credits include the Chuck Norris movie Forced Vengeance (1982), and Nancy Heimert, a business-liaison/producer/PA. William grew up with two siblings: brother Guy Zabka and sister Judy Zabka. Both siblings are accomplished singers, musicians and songwriters...as is WZ himself, who plays guitar and piano.
4. Best known by the public for his role as Johnny Lawrence, the main villain of John G. Avildsen's classic Het uur van de waarheid (1984) and the web television series Cobra Kai (2018).
5. Speaks Czech fluently. The Czech translation of his surname (pronounced "zhuh-b-kuh") is "little frog".
6. In Just One Of The Guys, his character's girlfriend goes after a guy (actually a girl dressed as a guy) that she says looks like "The Karate Kid" (aka Ralph Macchio) who was William's foe in The Karate Kid.