Zitat des Tages von Ving Rhames:
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.
I don't give Hollywood the power to limit me. Only God can limit me.
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.
Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.
The training at Juilliard School is classical training, and it really makes one very versatile.
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.
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.
In this industry, very few actors can control their career.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.
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.
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.
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.
When I look at the world, I recognize that unfortunately, it sometimes takes an atrocity like 9/11 to force us to come together.
I don't need dialogue to convey emotion or thoughts to my audience.
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.'
The more you do a stunt, the more you increase the risk of something happening.
Are you intimidated by me? Because if you're intimidated by me, that's something you'll have to deal with.
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.
I saw that crime pays, but I never got involved in crime.
I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.
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.'
I live a very simple life.
The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.
I'm the spokesman for ADT, and ADT, brother, pays better than most actors make on film.
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.
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.
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.
You can feel I am whatever you want to feel I am. God knows who I am, and I know who I am.
Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed.
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.
Since I graduated college, all I have ever done for a living was acting.
