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I don't need dialogue to convey emotion or thoughts to my audience.

There could be some unknown actor who's a better actor than Ving Rhames, but no one knows that actor, so Ving Rhames will get the job.

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I don't give Hollywood the power to limit me. Only God can limit me.

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I spent three days with Don King, and I interviewed 45 people. I studied his speech, his mannerisms. He invited me to a couple of fights, and I watched him.

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Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.

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The training at Juilliard School is classical training, and it really makes one very versatile.

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I do fish, and as a matter of fact, I used to do a lot of deep sea fishing, but as far as going into the water, I don't go out deep into the water.

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All I want and all I even ask of people in Hollywood is look, just be honest with me. Please don't lie to me. Whatever the situation is, be honest with me.

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In this industry, very few actors can control their career.

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I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw that she broke down and cried. I never wanted to hurt my mother, so I kept away from drugs.

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When I think of the trials and tribulations that black men go through in America and that black artists went through, I feel very privileged.

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I think God has blessed each of us with at least one gift. So I think it's a matter of do we find it within our lifetime.

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Really, if you get in the ring and box with someone for real, I don't think it is a sport. As far as professional fighters, you are literally putting your life on the line.

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For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.

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I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

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My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.

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Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.

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You don't have to make, you know, $3 Million dollars a movie, or $20 Million dollars a movie, but if you make a living doing what you love doing, then that's success to me.

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When I look at the world, I recognize that unfortunately, it sometimes takes an atrocity like 9/11 to force us to come together.

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I don't need dialogue to convey emotion or thoughts to my audience.

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I think quite a bit of organized religion has become big business. Jesus Christ never sold the word of God. He never gave a sermon and then said, 'For $8.99, you can buy the CD.'

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The more you do a stunt, the more you increase the risk of something happening.

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Are you intimidated by me? Because if you're intimidated by me, that's something you'll have to deal with.

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I try to base my life on the principles of Christ. I try to raise my family on the principles of Christ. I don't know if that makes me religious.

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I saw that crime pays, but I never got involved in crime.

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I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.

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I'm a God-fearing man, and I know the only reason why I am here going from poverty to where I am now is God has His hand on my life. I tell people, 'I didn't choose acting; God chose me to act.'

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I live a very simple life.

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The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.

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I'm the spokesman for ADT, and ADT, brother, pays better than most actors make on film.

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In about 9th grade, an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school, so I did on a whim. I got accepted. Then I got accepted at the Julliard School, and by then, I was serious about it.

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I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.

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There's really not that much difference between you and I. And my name really doesn't matter. Hopefully, my heart and my spirit matters to you. Hopefully.

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You can feel I am whatever you want to feel I am. God knows who I am, and I know who I am.

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Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed.

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My brother and I slept on the couch. I didn't get my own room until I was in college. We didn't even have a telephone until I was in college.

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Since I graduated college, all I have ever done for a living was acting.

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