"Bruce Lee was not the most acute vision, and besides, one leg is shorter than another. But he had a clear idea, which he wants to achieve, worked on himself and eventually became on the screen the embodiment of the most courageous image of the artist and the first superstar of China, who made his career in Hollywood, "says Chuck Norris. With Bruce Lee Chuck Norris met at the Championship of all stars on Karate in 1966, and it was he who became his godfather in cinema. Two years later, Bruce invited Chuck on the shooting of the film "Emergency Team": "Once, Bruce called me and offered to play in the film as a rival with whom he would fight. I asked: "And who of us will win the battle?" - "Of course, I. Because I am in the main role, "Bruce replied."
Love for sports Chuck Norrisa instilled the adopted father when his mom after the divorce re-married. And the American actor began to seriously engage in martial arts during the service in the ranks of the US Air Force in South Korea. It was on this military base where he got through his desire to become a police officer, colleagues began to call the future star Chuck. According to Norris, he was not enough for one service, and soon he found a fascinating occupation for himself - signed up in the judo section. And after some time, it accidentally seeing Taekwondo classes on the street playground, and in this section. There, "old people" did not spare a newcomer and at first time the first time was poured so that the spark was poured out of the eyes. But gradually a chuck from pear for beating turned into a formidable opponent and a year after the start of training already had black belts at once in two types of martial arts: Taekwondo and Tanzudo. In 1968, Norris opens a network of karate schools (all of them numbered 32) and in the same year it becomes a world heavyweight champion in this sport and retains the title for seven years.
A sudden death in 1973 inspired him once for shooting in Bruce Lee's movie forced Chuck Norris to quit coaching work and go to study in acting school, despite the fact that at that time about 16 thousand actors were among the unemployed. But Norris was counting on his skills of Karates and was right. Already in the mid-1970s, he began to actively starve in the militants, and a wide recognition came to him in the early 1980s, when three cash paintings were published with his participation, "octagon", "Oco for the eye" and "Lone Wolf".
In 1993, CBS from Dallas released the pilot of the TV series "Steep Walker: Justice of the Texas", which became a landmark for the actor for many years. The first year of work on the series was especially difficult. As eyewitnesses tell, Norris worked for seven days a week. All this time, he almost did not eat anything, but a coffee was drinking liters. According to his then girlfriend, mannequins and fans of Bodybuilding Monica Hall (their novel began in 1990, after Norris divorced his wife), Chuck was not easy. "It was terrible. Chuck has a hardest stress, in the worst condition I have never seen him. I was seriously afraid for him! .. "Montica recalled. But ultimately, Monica, not Chuck, could not stand the tense chart and declared his decision to complete the relationship. And after half a year, Chuck met his beloved woman - she became 35-year-old beauty, the former model of Gina O'Killi. At the time of dating, Norris Gina was married, and the journalists were pretty blocked by both the nerves, saying that Chuck took his wife from a disabled person, because her husband Gordon Hinsberger, from which Gina had two children, was chained to a wheelchair. However, Norris, in an interview with a journalist Martine Erve, said the following: "Everyone who knows me, understand: I am not able to make a similar lowness, as I differ in peace-loving temper, carefulness and good energy charge. I like people! I do not want to evil anyone! Yes, I am fond of beautiful women, like any normal man. But I have strict principles: I never meet with married ladies. When we met Gina, she had long decided to divorce. " In 1998, Norris and Gina got married, and three years later the twins were born - the son of Dakota Alan Norris and Danil Kelly's daughter Norris. In addition, the actor has three adult children from the first spouse Diana Houlchkk - Dina's daughter and sons Mike and Eric.
The interests of Chuck Norris are by no means limited to cinema and martial arts. He is engaged in social and political activities, is the creator of a large number of television show, publishes his magazine and wrote seven books. Chuck became one of the first stars of show business supporting the ban on same-sex marriages in California. And when he was asked what he did first, if he became president of the United States, he answered: "I will immediately order on the forehead of every atheist to make a tattoo of the American flag with the words:" I believe in God. "