'Karate Kid' star Ralph Macchio doesn't regret avoiding Hollywood
The Guardian, he admits that he could have followed a similar path to fellow ’80s heartthrobs Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon and Emilio Estevez, who appeared alongside him in The Outsiders, but is happy he stayed at home.“If I’d been trying to grab that gold ring every chance, maybe I would have had more (jobs), but I couldn’t get to them because I was watching a baseball game back in my home town,” he explains.“I wasn’t the biggest risk-taker, and I’m sure there were lost opportunities because of that.